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TIL that some women in Mauritania force-feed their daughters because obesity for women is idealized in the country.

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M7yBK TIL that even though Jim Delligatti is often regarded as the creator of the Big Mac, Delligatti admitted that he didn’t invent the Big Mac, but merely copied the “double deck hamburger” marketed by the Big Boy hamburger chain since the 1940s. The actual Big Mac was created to compete with Big Boy.
Ed9W TIL that the Austrian army accidently fought itself and lost 10 000 men.
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