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TIL McDonald's Grimace is a tastebud

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woggJ TIL that from 1992-1997, two-thirds of Albania’s population invested in state-backed pyramid schemes, with many people investing their life savings. When 25 schemes collapsed, civil unrest erupted, lasting over six months, toppling the government and requiring UN intervention to restore order.
awXMA TIL in 2010, a British party ran with the following policies: reducing class sizes to 3'x2'6"; increasing prison sentences to at least 20 words; making cycling more attractive by banning the obese from wearing cycle shorts; using a smaller font size to reduce the unemployment statistics, and more
xV9B7 TIL of Loulis, a chimp who learned to communicate trought sign languange, but he wasn't taught by humans: he learned the signs from his adoptive mother, Washoe, the first chimp to ever learn sign languange
BgBxd TIL 'America' was first used to for South America, named for Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci
a86MM TIL that following their execution (by beheading) for treason, the heads of Baron Saye and his son-in-law were unceremoniously impaled on pikes by a mob and pushed together so that they appeared to kiss.