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TIL The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly. It consists in some blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster

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1aKA4 TIL the McDonald's Big Mac was invented by franchisee Jim Delligatti in Pittsburgh, PA. It had two previous names: the Aristocrat and Blue Ribbon Burger. It was first sold in 1967 and nationwide the following year.
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