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TIL that in Japan eating Christmas dinner at KFC is so popular that two-hour lines form at some locations as people wait to get in.

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DQQwv TIL that Oregon Trail was created by an 8th grade Minnesota schoolteacher
GYeBE Today I learned about JIS-spec screws, which look an awful lot like Phillips-head screws, but the tools are not always interchangeable and can cause mechanics tremendous frustration.
xVMVD TIL Germany's Working act of 1994 stipulates that an employee's weekday working hours may not exceed eight hours.
P10PE TIL roughly 115 million years ago in the time of dinosaurs, a little 5cm mushroom from Gondwana fell in a river, journeyed to a highly saline lagoon, sank down, down, thru the water. Was covered in layer upon layer of fine sediment. Becoming Gondwanagaricites magnificus, the oldest fossil mushroom
49aN TIL that the Apple logo contains an apple with a single bite, because a small version of the logo would be indistinguishable from a cherry.