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

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eL75 TIL in 2013 a NJ city councilwoman was tricked into believing the Blue Waffle Disease was real and a threat to her city, so she asked the city council what they were going to do about it.
oRvar TIL that Rotten Tomatoes ‘Fresh’ % is not the average score of a movie/show, but just how many critics gave it at least 3/5 stars. So better movies do occasionally have lower Fresh % than worse movies.
4XvJJ TIL of the "world's richest Indian." Jackson Barnett who was from the Muscogee Native American tribe had as much as $24 million worth of oil under his Oklahoma property. Due to Barnett's illiteracy he was denied access to his estate and died in relative poverty.
OY47 TIL Britons eat 97% of the world’s baked beans
womXJ TIL that a fake baby (doll) was used in the 2014 film American Sniper because the real baby that was supposed to play in the scene showed up with a fever and the second baby was a no show. In one media screening of the film, the audience laughed out loud at how artificial the doll appeared.