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TIL that chick fil a has 12 locations that serve more than chicken, including BURGERS.

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Z8gNY TIL a fossilised tooth of an extinct species of platypus was found in Queensland. Based on the tooth's size, researchers estimate the platypus would have been about twice as large as today's platypus & dubbed it "platypus-zilla".
x6A90 TIL only two countries have money that are non-decimal currencies: Mauritania, where 1 ouguiya = 5 khoums, and Madagascar, where 1 ariary = 5 iraimbilanja. There was an attempt to undecimalise units of time during the french revolution but it failed.
XEOaP TIL that prisoners in Auschwitz concentration camp attacked the SS guards with stones, axes, and makeshift hand grenades and killed 3 Nazi SS guards, one of whom was burned alive by the prisoners in the oven of Crematorium II.
VMLND TIL that the gin and tonic was invented as a result of the British being unable to stomach the taste of bitter malaria medication in India
4XvyN TIL in newborn babies, 87% of the energy they burn is used to operate their brains.