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TIL that the founders of Outback Steakhouse have never been to Australia

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o5yR TIL the Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before the year 2000.
X06ZX TIL that The Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University is the only international organization that is devoted to the research of chile peppers.
xNY1 TIL the term ‘riding shotgun’ comes from the Old West. Shotgun messengers were hired to protect valuables and trains and stagecoaches and would sit next to the driver on trips
OooK1 TIL the Church of Latter-Day Saints took out ad space in the Playbill for "The Book of Mormon" stating “You’ve seen the play… now read the book.” and “The book is always better.”
0wNEA TIL Starbucks wasted millions of litres of water by letting their taps run all day and banning their employees from turning taps off