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TIL in 2009, Burger King ran the “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign, which offered a free hamburger to anyone who deleted ten friends off Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was sending notifications to the castoffs letting them know they’d been dropped for a sandwich.

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