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TIL: a&w root beer is considered the standard of root beer according to the reviewers.

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loGyV TIL that the character Tinky Winky from the British TV series 'Tellytubbies' was attacked by the religious right in America for being a "gay role model".
WkOpL TIL that in 2019, a saxophonist was hired to compose a song for the critically endangered New Zealand bird, the Kakapo, in order to put them in a romantic mood for mating. It seems to have worked as 249 eggs were laid and 76 hatched during the breeding season.
wLkw7 TIL: One of the world's biggest mysteries is a 19' granite monument sitting on one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, GA. The Georgia Guidestones are engraved in eight different languages and the first of ten guides or commandments etched in stone is: “1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000”
LkMjr TIL that the character of Brain (from Pinky and the Brain) was based off of Orson Welles, and was directly inspired by tape of Welles being a cranky b*stard during the taping of a commercial.
5Yrn8 TIL Germans have nothing to do with German chocolate cake. It was made by an American whose last name was "German".