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TIL that there is a defunct Philippine Basketball team that went by the name the FedEx Express and the Burger King Whoppers.

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RrR6 TIL in an act of revenge after Miyamoto Musashi beat the two heirs of Yoshioka school in one-on-one combat, the entire school sent bowmen, gunmen and swordmen after him. Musashi responded by ambushing them, killing their figurehead leader and getting away.
omwW TIL that in 2010 there was a ballot initiative in Washington to make the state seal include a tapeworm dressed in a three piece suit attached to the lower intestine of a taxpayer.
VBRB4 TIL that Alexander Hamilton (a Scottish duke, not the Founding Father) was so interested in Egyptian mummies, he had himself mummified after death and put in a Ptolemaic sarcophagus.
awORM TIL that workers on Antarctica are starting to develop an accent. The way the Antarctic “winterers” are together for several months is similar to a colonial settlement: there's no access to/from Antarctica in winter and they're in regular (spoken) contact with each other.
WkvgA TIL that one hotel owner's refusal to serve another's daughter fried chicken led to the second man building a rival hotel in right next door. Locals referred to it as the 'Fried Chicken War'