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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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6EvEX TIL that the king of Belgium enslaved African men to force them to harvest rubber for European tires. If the harvest was short their wives and children were murdered and their hands and feet were given to the male workers as punishment.
XE4rE TIL If the world's wealth were divided evenly among its population, we'd have about $50K each (using 2014 figures).
0EPy TIL that a Vietnam War veteran waited in line at a Jane Fonda book signing just to spit tobacco juice in her face, calling her a traitor to the US for her actions in the 1970s
5YOaD TIL the first photograph to include a human being was almost an accident. Because the image required a long exposure, all the people, carriages, and other moving things disappeared from the scene -- except the the man who happened to stay still during the shot, getting his shoes shined.
lZeG TIL that James Gunn wanted Chris Pratt for Guardians of the Galaxy so much he was willing to CGI a six pack on the actor