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TIL Chic-Fil-A was first sold at a Waffle House

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l7MPB TIL that in the 1600s there was an English chef called Robert May who made pastry ships that featured cannons with real gunpowder, which, when lit for mock battle, caused the ships to explode in a cloud of smoke
b9pj TIL This is the first known painting by Salvador Dali. Which he painted when he was SIX years old.
gMDxL TIL about Belgian pie thrower Noël Godin who's pied the likes of Bill Gates and Nicolas Sarkozy. His sworn enemies are "authority, depressing laws, the return of moral order, nuclear power, and any form of political power." His pie of choice is a simple whipped cream and chocolate on a soft sponge.
L5MP TIL in 1988, Mark Wahlberg assaulted two Vietnamese men, knocking one man unconscious and permanently blinding the other, calling them “slant-eyed gooks”. He ended up serving 45 days for the crime.
EYAW TIL The Mall of America does not have a central heating system, instead, “guests generate enough heat during peak winter hours that the air conditioning system runs full blast to keep the mall comfortable.”