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

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d8L0j TIL that a Catalan nationalist tried to assassinate Alfonso XIII, once King of Spain. A hundred years later, those people are again in revolt.
JYyOk TIL Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner, was involved in a plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. She spend 7 months in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk normally again. In 1936, she returned to the US olympic team and won gold in the relay.
d6mj TIL that if you clap your hands in front of Chichen Itza’s El Castillo pyramid, the echo will sound like a chirping bird
DnNP TIL that the first “men’s rights movement” dates to the 1920s; under the slogan of “equal rights for men”, they opposed alimony, child support, and “the favoritism of the authorities in favor of women”
oRmkA TIL that the New Caledonia pine (Araucaria columnaris) leans towards the equator wherever it is on Earth, except in New Caledonia, the region where it is endemic : the farther it is from the equator, the more it tilts.