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TIL that even though Jim Delligatti is often regarded as the creator of the Big Mac, Delligatti admitted that he didn’t invent the Big Mac, but merely copied the “double deck hamburger” marketed by the Big Boy hamburger chain since the 1940s. The actual Big Mac was created to compete with Big Boy.

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neQaY TIL that starting about 7,000 years ago in Egypt, seasonal rains started moving south until rain only now falls regularly on the Ethiopian highlands. This shift forced nomadic cattle herders to settle along the Nile, leading to the first permanent Egyptian civilizations.
b6ojj TIL about Royce Williams who in 1952 was engaged in a one-man dogfight with seven MiG-15s that lasted 35 minutes.
kJpy4 TIL in WWI, half of the French army mutinied in 1917. Soldiers remained in trenches, but refused orders to attack after the failure of the Nivelle Offensive, which General Nivelle promised a 48 hour victory. The mutinies were heavily suppressed by the French and were not fully disclosed until 1967.
daMr TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien created the words “dwarvish” and “dwarves”, countering the spelling at the time of the books publication which was “dwarfish” and “dwarfs”, and many dictionaries now consider this the proper way to spell the words.
ejEJ TIL that techniques for cheaply mass-producing truffles have existed since 1808. However, due to a combination of factors, many of these techniques were lost, and despite modern attempts truffle production has never fully recovered.