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TIL that popular food chain, Texas Roadhouse, was founded in Indiana, headquartered in Kentucky, and has nothing to do with the state of Texas

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MeNLA TIL Alice Cooper once threw a live chicken at the audience, thinking it would fly away, and the audience tore it to pieces. After newspapers claimed he had bitten off the chicken's head and drunk its blood on stage, Frank Zappa said "Well, whatever you do, don't tell anyone you didn't do it.".
YpxQd TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness than Ireland!!!
groRW TIL that there was a restaurant on The Titanic, provided for first class passengers, who wanted to avoid dining with other first class passengers.
kJaZE TIL. The Margraviate of Brandenburg, an impoverished electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, tried colonizing Africa in the late 17th century.
D0BD TIL there is a music piece called “As Slow as Possible” which started in 2001 and has a duration of 639 years. It can take years for a single note to be played.