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TIL Tons of popular restaurants use red,orange or yellow as those colours makes people hungry-er some examples are: McDonalds,KFC,Jack in the box and Dairy Queen.

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6ZAl TIL in 1908 the Russian Olympic team arrived at the Olympics in London 12 days late because it was still using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar
9GVQ TIL that in 1866 two separate entrepreneurs started competing milk companies in Switzerland. By 1905, when both men were dead, the two companies merged to become Nestle.
0vrN TIL, in China, before it there was a vaccine, smallpox scabs were ground up and blown up the noses of healthy people in order to immunize them.
GkY4 TIL - In 526 AD there was a world-wide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a FULL YEAR, resulting in widespread famine and disease. >80% of Scandinavia and parts of China starved to death, 30% of Europe died in epidemics, and empires fell. No one knows the cause.
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