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TIL Jennifer Hudson gets free Burger King for life after she sarcastically thanked them for being a part of her success

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4kaG6 TIL in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack while in a horse race, but became the only known example of a dead man winning a horse race.
de79 TIL according to radiocarbon dating, the earliest known Walls of Jericho date from 7825BC - more than twice as old as the Pyramids
gvND TIL Bolivians, who have been living off of quinoa for centuries, can no longer afford the grain due to its recent explosion in popularity.
ANrAB TIL in Denmark you had to officially check underneath your vehicle to make sure there aren't children hiding/sleeping there.
0wXmL TIL that an Orca killed a Great White Shark near California’s Farallon Islands in 2000. The smell of the dead shark's carcass caused all nearby great whites to vanish. A great white with a satellite tag in the area was seen to immediately dive to a depth of 500 meters and then swam to Hawaii.