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TIL that at US fast food chains, drive through sales account for 70% of purchases, up 30% from pre-pandemic levels.

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dDJrQ TIL that until 2020, the official name of Rhode Island was State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Y7OGA TIL of Alice Kober, who helped decipher an ancient script known as Linear B. Over 20 years, she meticulously recorded her research in a collection of 180,000 index cards. The script was deciphered in 1952, shortly after her death. It remains the only Bronze Age Aegean script that is readable now.
VExQ TIL L. Ron Hubbard took a trip to China and in his journal he wrote down his thoughts of the Chinese “They smell of all the baths they didn’t take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.”
J1w6Q TIL that "cacerolazo" is a popular form of protest that consists of making noise by banging pots, pans, and other utensils and is related to the English word for casserole.
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