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TIL A&W once tried to lure fans of McDonald’s quarterpounder burger with its new 1/3 pound burger… only to find it was a flop because most people thought 1/3 pound was smaller than ¼

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WEw8 TIL a father and his autistic son were stranded in the Atlantic ocean. They repeated “To infiniti and beyond” to keep track of each other for 15 hours before being rescued.
JgE1 TIL 10-year old Tilly Smith saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami, by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.
QJ6jp TIL Queen Elizabeth once hid in a bush with her corgis to avoid talking to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife.
pEAp TIL that if you have 1 Jewish grandparent you can apply for Israeli citizenship. The same criteria was used by Nazi Germany to determine who was Jewish.
eYpb TIL when Mao Zedong visited Soviet in 1949 Stalin had special toilets installed in order to secretly collect and analyze Mao’s excrement