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TIL that a McDonald's in the Netherlands once fired an employee for selling a coworker a hamburger and then separately giving them a piece of cheese, arguing that she should've charged more for a cheeseburger. Courts ruled in the employee's favor, ordering the rest of her contract paid out in full.

1OBD TIL that kiwis technically have the shortest beaks of all birds because kiwis’ nostrils are on the end of their beaks and a bird’s beak is measured from the tip of the beak to the nostril.
wXgW TIL that ants have two stomachs: a personal stomach and a group stomach, or crop. When an ant with a full crop meets a hungry nestmate, it will throw up a drop of food and pass it to the other ant, mouth to mouth. The polite word for this is trophallaxis.
yQwNM TIL Lance Armstrong was ordered to pay over $20 million after his cycling doping scandal. However, his fortunes were partially saved by being one of Uber's first investors in 2009.
ZplWD TIL in 2022, a group of Gujaratis livestreamed kayfabe cricket games on YouTube, mainly for a Russian audience. The games were all scripted and the 'players' were all dressed in outfits similar to India's T20 cricket league. The unaware Russian viewers placed bets through Telegram channels.
7r4DL TIL about Blackstone's ratio, the idea that, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Blackstone's principle influenced the nineteenth-century development of "beyond a reasonable doubt" as the burden of proof in criminal law.