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TIL There are two different chains called Whataburger/What-A-Burger that opened at the same time and they knew NOTHING about one another for decades

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KYY5Q TIL the John Harvard statue at Harvard University is called the Statue of Three Lies because he didn't found the college, and he wasn't a major benefactor having bequeathed his library of books and a sum of money to the fledgling college. Further, the statue is not of John Harvard.
nek9 TIL that Google Earth is censored by the Dutch goverment in an unique way.
b6n70 TIL #EndTheStreakTX, a campaign to go a single day without a death on Texas roads, has been gone unbroken since November 7, 2000.
9wYOB TIL that The Beatles song 'Sexy Sadie' was originally called 'Maharishi' after John Lennon realised he was a fraud while in India
K7AQ TIL there are 2 stoplights in the entire US Interstate System. One at the Holland Tunnel in New Jersey, and one in Breezewood, PA