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TIL that there are no Wendy's in Europe due to a local Dutch snackbar owner owning the Wendy's trademark in Europe. They have been in a legal battle for years and Dutch courts side with the snackbar every time.

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Oo9aY TIL of the "Giant Panda Kindergarten" in China where 18 cubs celebrated their 1st birthday in 2019. Researchers mistakenly thought pandas liked solitary life & kept each panda in a tiny den; the pandas got depressed & didn't want to mate; this changed when pandas were allowed to hang out together.
P1eEE TIL toothpicks are made from birch wood
VMbNB TIL former governor of Alabama George Wallace died the same day Gary Sinise won an Emmy for playing him in a movie (September 13, 1998)
5YxwQ TIL that the Salem Witch Trials could have been just a really bad LSD trip as the rye bread they were eating was contaminated by a fungus called ergot which caused the consumer to spasm or hallucinate, leading people to blame witchcraft.
0wv45 TIL the whistling noise when bombs are dropped are an actual intentional design for psychological warfare in WW2.