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TIL that an A&W restaurant in Lansing Michigan is credited with inventing the bacon cheeseburger, some say due to customers constantly requesting it.

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9Ydr6 TIL that a man published a 1,905 page suicide note online before shooting himself at Harvard University. The note went in detail about things like human nature, society, religion, technology, and science.
45BJ TIL London is one of the most surveilled cities on the planet, with 51,000 CCTV cameras. On average, a Londoner is captured on camera 300 times a day. The other cities with the most cameras are Beijing, Chicago, New York and Chongqing, China.
x65r5 TIL that symbols to denote irony or sarcasm in print have been around since at least the 1500s
KoAG TIL that the original Iron Chef came to the US, and Bobby Flay challenged Masaharu Morimoto. At the end, Flay stood on his cutting board, raising his arms in premature victory. Morimoto felt that tools are sacred to a real chef and criticized him, saying he was “not a chef.” Flay lost the battle.
vb07 TIL: Sum41 named the album “Chuck” after the man who took control and got them out of a hotel in Congo near a warzone