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TIL Burger King’s New French Fries Took Ten Years to Develop

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VBm8B TIL that Anton LeVey based the Church of Satan on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
XEBRX TIL Mark Foster of Foster the People conceived, wrote and recorded "Pumped Up Kicks" by himself in five hours. He had to force himself to do it instead of wasting time at the beach due to lack of inspiration
4XPAR TIL most toilets flush in E-flat.
54j8 TIL In 2013 a group of Neo Nazis tried to create a compound near a small town in North Dakota. Several local Native American grandmothers raided one of the Neo Nazi rallies and stole their Nazi flag, then burned it.