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TIL that Filet-O-Fish was introduced by McDonald's to accommodate Catholics who fasted from meat on Fridays

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P1bye TIL Alfred Canning surveyed the 1900km Canning Stock Route through the Western Australian desert by capturing and chaining Indigenous people and force feeding them salt - coercing them to show the survey party the way to water. A Royal Commission exonerated the survey party of any wrongdoing.
9E1G TIL if the space between the Earth and the Sun were filled with air, the Sun would be louder than a train horn. We, on Earth, would constantly hear it at 125 decibels – for comparison, a train horn 1 meter away comes in at 120 decibels.
LkwZm TIL Beelzebufo ampinga was the biggest frog to have ever lived with a length of 19 cm and weight of 4.5 Kg. It had a short, wide head that was almost all mouth-a maw fitted with small, plate-like teeth, massive spikes protruding from its skull and armored plates embedded in the skin of its back
eRjn TIL Japan is comprised of 6,852 islands…
5VJ5r TIL that in 1939, a member of the Swedish Parliament jokingly nominated Adolf Hitler for a Nobel Peace Prize, but the nomination was cancelled.