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TIL Waffle House cooks use a code written in food to remember an order that was yelled in.

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BgvwK TIL that after medieval king of Scotland Robert the Bruce wandered away from his army he was charged at by an English knight. Instead of retreating Bruce charged and killed the Englishmen by smashing his head with an axe.
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