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TIL White Castle was the first fast food restaurant, founded in 1921.

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jNE7p TIL the financiers of The Human Centipede did not know about the mouth-to-anus aspect of the film until after it was complete
611Q TIL in 1976, a struggling Princeton undergrad wrote his junior term paper on how to make an atomic bomb, using information he gathered from physics textbooks and declassified documents. He got an A in the class, but never got his paper back because it was seized by the US government.
nGZG TIL that word formations like LGBTQ and USA are technically not acronyms, they are “initialisms” or “alphabetisms”. NATO and laser are acronyms, because they are pronounced as words and not just as a string of letters.
lG6B TIL: Almost exclusively in Minnesota the game “Duck, Duck, Goose” is called “Duck, Duck, Grey Duck”
VMZL4 TIL about the Stroke Belt, an 11-state region in the Southern US where the chances of getting a Stroke are 34% higher for the general population than it is in the rest of the country. Despite many hypotheses, the cause is still unknown.