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TIL at Fatburger, you can order a “Hypocrite"—a veggie burger topped with crispy strips of bacon.

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KON6w TIL that Romania is the country with the highest rate of home ownership in he world: more than 96% of the population owns a house or an apartment. At the beginning of the 1990s, after the fall of the Communist party, the state sold each tenant the house he or she occupied at a very low cost.
X7Vr TIL that an unfinished skyscraper in Venezuela has been taken over by squatters and is now home to 2500 people
MeA4m TIL of the Holocene extinction event, one of the most significant extinction events in the history of the Earth, happening now, as a direct result of Humans.
OGgxa TIL that the origin of why married couples become 'one' & women take their husband's surname dates back to the 1600s, where coverture prohibited women from having any legal identity or rights b/c they were considered 'one' with the husband and therefore subsumed his identity.
XQ4E TIL in 1834 a 22-year old milkmaid from the swedish countryside was arrested in Stockholm for distrupting traffic by gathering large crowds with her beauty. Once released her beauty was so famous that it became a necessity for trendy aristocrats to pay her to display herself in their salons.