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TIL Burger King once came out with a wine to pair with it's Whopper!

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dDVOd TIL: Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan as part of a “Work Life Choice Challenge” by shutting down offices every Friday. Productivity, measured by sales per employee, increased by almost 40% compared to the same period the previous year.
woAZ7 Today I learned that heavenly bamboo is used as an ornamental plant by cultivators, but it is an incredibly invasive species and very poisonous to birds & mammals.
W7QKd TIL That honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
RmZ9 TIL that apple seeds contain cyanide. Eating 20 apple cores will kill an adult, while eating less can result in paralysis, coma, and brain damage.
KONR4 TIL If you were to print a book writing out a Googolplex (10 to the power of a Googol(10 to the power of 100)) with each book having 400 pages and a mass of 100 grams (3.52oz) the amount of books required would have a mass greater then the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies combined.