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TIL Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s, went back to school in 1993 to get his GED because he was worried that his success as a high school dropout might convince some children to quit school.

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nePPb TIL that the Titanic was a part of 3 large ships called Olympic Class by a company called White Star, looking forward to compete with what at the moment we’re the largest vessels in the world. 2 out of the 3 sunk in less than 1 year (with the Titanic as everyone knows, sinking in the first travel)
oyRW TIL there is a 73-Year-Old Japanese Man Creates Impressive Paintings Using Only Excel
lxw1 Today I learned that craniopagus conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana can see through each other’s eyes.
DJWV TIL Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue full of joke science, like one paper that said men die before women because they are stupid. But years later these articles are cited by scientists as real, and this is causing a lot of problems.
Y77dG TIL in 1993, the U.S launched 23 Tomahawk missiles into a building believed to be HQ of the Iraqi Intelligence Service after Iraqi agents tried to assassinate former President George H.W Bush with a car bomb in Kuwait.