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TIL that a Third-Pounder burger failed because the average American did not understand that 1/3 was larger than 1/4.

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8evyZ TIL the world’s longest railway bench is found in a seaside town in the UK and was dates back to 1883.
v1nKK TIL Only about 10% can freely control the muscle that is stretching the eardrum. "Ear rumbling" is flexing the tensor tympani muscle, that makes the same noise and vibration you sometimes get when swallowing or yawning. Some people can flex it endlessly.
bro4 TIL: At least 15 repeat sex offenders in California have asked for surgical castration as a way of avoiding indefinite incarceration.
6KjY TIL India bans captive Dolphin shows as ‘morally unacceptable’ - They believe they are highly intelligent & should be seen as ‘non-human persons’ with their own specific rights.
kjMe TIL of Adactylidium, a species of mite in which seven female offspring and one male offspring are raised in their mother’s insides. The females then mate with the male and eat their mother alive from the inside-out. Then, they escape their mother’s corpse, leaving their brother to die.