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TIL that in 2019, A&W became the first franchised restaurant chain to turn 100 years old

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x6ydb TIL Sri Lankan playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera performed her debut play "Middle of Silence" at the age of 19 and her debut play was staged in London's West End. She also wrote screenplay for 2008 Italian-Sri Lankan film Machan which was based on the disappearance of Sri Lanka national handball team
R5aJ4 TIL Eddie Bauer, founder of the eponymous outdoor apparel and gear company, loved Labrador retrievers. One of his dogs, named "Wanapum Dart's Dandy", became the first American Labrador retriever to be a Triple Crown national champion, and was inducted into the Retriever Hall of Fame in 1992.
BgKpb TIL about Massachusetts' Sacred Cod
REjl TIL: George Leutz holds the high score for Q*bert. He played for eighty-four hours and forty-eight minutes. He scored 37,163,080 points.
1aJEV TIL of Ablaut Reduplication - a subtle rule of linguistics which dictates why "King Kong" sounds more right than "Kong King", "Hip hop" sounds more correct than "Hop hip". Similarly "tick tock", "zig zag", "chit chat" etc.