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loPM5 TIL that one of the reasons the Cottingley Fairies photos weren't revealed as fake for so long (over 60 years) was because the girls who took them didn't want to make a fool out of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had believed they were real and wrote about the fairies as a psychic phenomenon
YvRr TIL that the BigMac with the least amount of sodium is served in Malaysia while that with the most is served in Japan, which also has the most calories.
ZB5B TIL that Richard Montañez, Mexican janitor, who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos is now the executive vice president of multicultural sales and community activation for PepsiCo’s North American divisions.
9w51r TIL the Voyager missions launched when it launched, so as to take advantage (for the purpose of gravitational assist) of a rare alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, that happens only once, every 175 years.
Wk8Od TIL During the Second Opium War (1860), French and British troops reached the Imperial Palace in Peking, China. The troops looted everything in sight—including five Pekingese dogs. The dogs were taken back to England and one of the dogs was given to Queen Victoria. She named the dog “Looty"