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TIL Panera Bread is called Saint Louis Bread Company exclusively in the St. Louis metro area.

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Y7vRW TIL an Ottoman official in early 20th Century Paris was offered male prostitues by his host, who thought that being Turkish, he would be interested in sodomy.
JNWk TIL there was a satirical study published in the British Medical Journal in 2003 in response to the antivaccination movement titled “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge”. It’s conclusion? Throw antivaxxers out of planes without parachutes.
ne8nP TIL that the Inquisition still officially exists, but in 1965 was renamed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
P18Vg TIL that during World War II, the Danish resistance movement smuggled the Jews out of Denmark before the Nazis could send them to the concentration camps, in part by going through telephone books and warning everyone with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.
vP4xr TIL that the Leaning Tower of Pisa was built in 3 stages over centuries but that it had begun leaning from the start, so they simply built each new stage straight up on top of the tilted lower portions; as a result, the 3 sections are leaning at different angles.