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TIL Guy Fieri fed 5,000 fire evacuees a day during the 2017 Santa Rosa wildfires.

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OojR4 TIL That despite having an intense rivalry lasting 125 years, Major League Baseball's Dodgers and Giants have never faced each other in the post season.
GAJa1 TIL: The mission to kill Osama bin Laden was called Operation Neptune's Spear in honour of the SEAL trident, which is Neptune's Spear.
aOGo TIL the three mile limit for international waters was created as this was the maximum distance a cannon ball could travel from the shore.
xVE50 Today I learned that there is a German band called Compressor Head composed entirely of Robots, who actually play the instruments.
6EmMJ TIL that the Turkish word for a turkey bird means "India," the Hindi word means "Turkey," the Portuguese word means "Peru," Khmer and Scottish Gaelic call it a "French chicken," Malay calls it a "Dutch chicken," and various dialects of Arabic call it a Roman, Greek, or Ethiopian chicken.