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TIL The probably oldest continuously operated fast food restaurant has been serving Bratwurst in Germany for over 850 years.

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6EjY7 TIL That when a whale gets beached and dies, gas builds up in their bodies, which causes for them to explode. This is because of the whale's tough skin and blubber, which doesn't let the gas escape from their bodies.
b96ea TIL that, after a series of shark attacks in 2010, Egyptian officials claimed that "the GPS tracking device found on one of the sharks was in fact a "guiding device" planted by Israeli agents"
9gpX TIL: Martin Luther King Jr’s son met James Earl Ray asking him, “I just want to ask you, for the record, um, did you kill my father?” Ray replied, “No-no I didn’t,” and King tells Ray that he, along with the King family, believed him; the King family urged that Ray be granted a new trial.
R7Zva TIl of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who after researching international black market organ trade, made the "unusual" decision" to share her findings with law enforcement including the FBI, which later resulted in several arrests.
Oo4j6 TIL about Sylvia Robinson who is often credited as starting Hip-Hop..Robinson is credited as the driving force behind two landmark singles in the hip hop genre; "Rapper's Delight" (1979) and "The Message l"(1982) by Grandmaster Flash which caused her to be dubbed "The Mother of Hip- Hop"