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TIL Brazil McDonalds forced to offer Rice & Beans to staff after legal complaint that McDonalds food wasn’t healthy for workers

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9kZM TIL David Letterman interrupted a live broadcast of the Today Show, proclaiming that he was the president of NBC News and that he wasn’t wearing any pants
nWJXd TIL when a newly discovered sponge-like fungi was named after SpongeBob SquarePants in 2011, a mycological research journal initially rejected the name for being “too frivolous”. When challenged, the scientists stood behind their discovery, saying “we’ll name it whatever we like”.
D1KKp TIL that in South Korea, men who win gold medal in Olympic, do not have to participate in the 2 year mandatory military programme.
gMmJD TIL the Monkees named their movie Head, so that if they ever released a second film they could use the tag line “from the people who gave you Head”
aw5bN TIL the United Kingdom's 2021 national census was the first census where British people whose way of life or cultural heritage stemming from travelling fairs and circuses were able to register "SHOWMAN" as both an occupation and an ethnicity