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TIL Domino’s reported a large rise in pizza sales in the 15 minutes before the OJ Simpson verdict. When the announcement began, the orders stopped, however; “not a single pizza was ordered in the United States for five minutes between 1 o'clock and 1:05”

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mxvWO TIL that the Russians partied so hard after the end of WW2 was announced that the entire city of Moscow ran out of Vodka.

DKNV TIL in 1849 New York, a man would walk up to strangers and begin a conversation. Gaining their trust, he would ask “Have you the confidence to trust me with your watch until tomorrow?” He would never return. When finally caught, he was labeled a “confidence man”, later shortened to simply “con man”.

MebO0 TIL: Smartwatches are gross and more than 30 times dirtier than toilet seats

VM9Xk TIL about Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments who slashed his own salary from $1.1 million to $70k, in order to make sure every single one of his employees received a salary of $70k

XmKX TIL - The word vegetarian, coined by the founders of the British Vegetarian Society in 1842, The original meaning of the word implies a balanced philosophical and moral sense of life, a lot more than just a diet of vegetables and fruits.