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TIL McDonald's Big Mac was created to copy the Bob's Big Boy double hamburger.

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R7Kx7 TIL about mate choice copying, a phenomenon in many animal species including humans where a potential mate is seen as more desirable if they've already been selected by another mate. It is more likely to occur when the current mate is seen as attractive and is also more prominent in women than men.
LZvQ TIL Native Americans took over Alcatraz Island for 19 months in the 60s/70s.
8eE7b TIL the opposite of a mule is called a hinny
5Vvdr TIL Grigori Perelman was offered the Fields Medal in 2006 and the Millennium Prize of 1 million dollars in 2010 for his contribution in solving the Poincaré Conjecture, an open problem in mathematics for a century. He rejected both of them.
P1pVV TIL The first product scanned with a bar code scanner was a packet of Wrigley's chewing gum. it happened on Marsh Supermarket, Ohio.