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TIL that there was an Aunt Jemima pancake restaurant at Disneyland from its open in 1955 until 1967.

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16aLd TIL that after 5 Tamil chiefs defeated the Sri Lankan king Valagamba, one of them became king but was eventually slain by another, who also became king before being slain by another, and so on until only one remained, then Valagamba returned, slew the last one and took back his throne.
LMvd TIL that the State of Georgia was originally colonized with three prohibitions: no alcohol, no slavery, and no Catholics.
7Vl7 TIL A group of German scientists studying a wild tobacco plant noticed that when the plant was being eaten by caterpillars, the plant would release a scent that would attract predatory bugs who would then eat the caterpillars
rROaM TIL that a strain of genital warts from SE Asia appears to be older than Homo sapiens and might have been acquired through intimate contact with a now extinct human species
p8KeN TIL of Charles Fraser-Smith (one of the inspirations behind 'Q' in the James Bond movies) designed a special left-hand thread for the disguised screw-off top of a hidden-document container; he thought that "no German would ever think of trying to unscrew something the wrong way."