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TIL the Pentagon has twice as many toilets than it would have had if it were built today, due to being built in a time of segregation

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QJEKX TIL that the Black Panther Party created the Free Breakfast for School Children Program in which they gave free breakfasts to over 10,000 kids so that they’d have the energy to learn in school
M7JL0 TIL : Orcas are targeting yachts to practice catching food.
ayrJ TIL that the founder of Jimmy John’s is a big game trophy hunter
e08v6 TIL about a Miner’s egg, a method in which miners would smuggle silver ore out of mines using candle wax, and later “lay” once out of the mine.