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TIL that Jon Bon Jovi has a community restaurant that has no prices listed for the food - you pay for it if you can afford to, or volunteer in the kitchen in exchange for meals.

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b9MP9 TIL, that between 1937 and 1938 111,091 ethnic Poles living in USSR were executed as spies. To speed up the process local telephone books were used to find Polish sounding names. Another 28,744 were sent to Gulags.
j647p TIL cazu martzu is a cheese that has living maggots in it. If you don't chew enough the maggots can be your intestines. It is banned for obvious reasons but the demand for the maggot cheese is so large there is a black market that brings in 2-3 million euros annually
Z8o6R TIL William Hung is a 73rd Generation Descendant of Confucius
9YpAD TIL of Budd Dwyer, PA State Treasurer who committed televised suicide the day before he was to be removed from office for a bribery conviction, so his wife and disabled child could receive full death benefits after being bankrupted by legal fees. He was later proven innocent.
e0wGE TIL that there are 5 oil spills currently happening, one of which has been ongoing since September 2004 and the most recent of which started on the 6th of January 2018.