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TIL there's a restaurant in Amsterdam called Ctaste where patrons dine in the dark and all the wait staff are blind.

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Xva6 TIL On ‘Three’s Company’, John Ritter’s scrotum was briefly visible through his boxer shorts. John Ritter told the NY Observer when asked him about the controversy “I’ve requested that Nickelodeon air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t”
6J1Y TIL J. Paul Getty refused to pay for his grandson’s ransom. When an ear arrived by mail and the kidnappers lowered the sum to $3m instead of $17m, he agreed to pay only $2.2 million - the maximum amount that would be tax deductible. He lent his son the remaining $800.000, at a 4% interest.
1apE7 TIL that the pastor who lead a campaign to end Southern Decadence Festival because of lewd public behavior, was later arrested for public masturbation.
ldWB TIL that nearly all Japaneses school staff are trained to use a weapon called the Sasumata. It is a two pronged people catcher based off a medieval weapon of war that is used to immobilize intruders.
J1p0k TIL that The Island of the Dolls, located in Mexico, is filled with antique dolls. While it's accessible by gondola-like boats, most rowers are willing to transport people to the island, but there are those who refuse out of superstition.