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TIL about Dyers Burgers, who have been using the same grease to cook for over 100 years

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Lkner TIL in 1996 Michael Hutchence presented Oasis with a Brit Awards trophy and during the acceptance Noel Gallagher said, “Has-beens shouldn't be presenting awards to gonna-bes.” Afterwards, Hutchence secretly re-recorded the INXS song "Elegantly Wasted" to include the chorus, "I am better than Oasis".
MeRK8 TIL the first crime in Antartica in almost 20 years occurred when a 54-year old engineer stabbed his co-worker over spoiling the endings of books he was reading
a18L TIL Paul Reubens (AKA Pee Wee Herman) asked his father to build him a performance stage when he was five years old and went on to be named president of the National Thespian Society in high school.
EXbw TIL people in Japan are chronically lonely and about 70 people a day commit suicide mainly due to this but they seem to do little to prevent being lonely. Currently in Osaka if someone wants a free hug.
M77Y8 TIL Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross, who played the parents on the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties," were born on the exact same date - June 21, 1947.