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TIL it's healthier to eat two burgers than a single burger with fries.

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oBBYE TIL Before being offered the role of Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins had quit Hollywood to go back to England, feeling that the rest of his mediocre career would be spent on stage and "doing respectable BBC work."
ZaBp TIL An Air Canada flight took a detour to find a stranded Australian yacht. The passengers of the Boeing 777 found the yacht only 25 minutes after the distress beacon was activated.
wLDgW TIL only 8% of the world's currency exists in physical form. The rest exists only on a computer
wow7W TIL that in 1857, Mormon saints killed an entire wagon train of 120 Arkansans bound for California when they passed through southern Utah. Later dubbed the "Mountain Meadows Massacre," they left only 17 survivors, all under the age of 5, and attempted to raise them in the LDS faith.
y9re TIL of a British Army Gurkha who, in 2010, single-handily fought off up to 30 Taliban fighters to stop his position being overrun