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TIL that the Chinchilla is critically endangered.

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M7yBK TIL that even though Jim Delligatti is often regarded as the creator of the Big Mac, Delligatti admitted that he didn’t invent the Big Mac, but merely copied the “double deck hamburger” marketed by the Big Boy hamburger chain since the 1940s. The actual Big Mac was created to compete with Big Boy.
PvgG TIL that there is a disorder called “William’s Syndromes” in which one of its primary features is “pathological friendliness”
KJ5R TIL James Buchanan Duke is credited as the inventor of the cigarette, made billions, and Duke University is named in his honor.
Aykg TIL in 1945, Army photography David Conover saw a young woman on the Radioplane assembly line whom he thought had potential as a model. He photographed her working on the OQ-3 model, which led to a screen test for the woman, who soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.
56Qn TIL a 3rd grade teacher ran an experiment with her class after the assassination of Martin Luther King where she got kids to discriminate against each other on the basis of eye color