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TIL The Burger King chain is called Hungry Jack’s in Australia

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xVKm1 TIL that in four states, including California, you can take the bar exam and practice law without ever going to law school. It’s called “reading law”.
9Yvm TIL that Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild) could have saved his own life if he had known about the hand-operated tram that crossed the otherwise impassable river.
GQXJ TIL there was a Chrono Trigger 3D/HD Remake in the works up until 2004 when SquareEnix issued a cease and desist letter to the company making the game.
d8117 TIL that the oldest person alive(120) sold her apartment at the age of 90 in exchange for monthly payments of 400€ until she died. The person she sold it to died at 77. Their family still had to pay her.
Wkpnd TIL that Texas still has a mutual combat law. This means that duelling is still legal according the Texas penal code. The law states that any two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat through a signed, verbal or implied communication and have at it (fists only, however).