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TIL that a Wall Street restaurant, The Exchange Buffet, operated on the honour system, where customers would tally their own bills. It ran successfully from 1885 to 1963

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Jd9V TIL in the Duelfer Report by the 1,400 member force by the CIA and Pentagon concluded in 2004 that Saddam Hussein had stopped all nuclear and chemical activities, as well as destroyed all stockpiles, in 1991
m1ODM TIL that from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, many U.S. drug stores, grocery stores, and department stores had self-service tube testers in which customers could test vacuum tubes that were pulled from their malfunctioning electronic devices.
N74n8 TIL The Columbine shooters had placed two propane bombs in the cafeteria which failed to explode due to poor construction and faulty wiring. Had those bombs detonated as planned, they would have likely killed or wounded all 488 students in the cafeteria
rRjvo TIL Walt Disney tried to join WW1 so he can fight the Germans but was rejected because he was to young so he forged the date of birth on his birth certificate, and joined the Red Cross to become an ambulance driver.
OGLE4 TIL - Sydney has a suburb called "Dee Why" - It remains unclear why.