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TIL After losing a the trademark "Big Mac", Burger King renamed its sandwiches to troll McDonald's

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gMmLb TIL President Lincoln was one of only 3 targets on the night he was assassinated. The Secretary of state was beaten almost to death that night, and the VP's assassin chickened out drunk in a hotel bar.
ADOgn TIL that 'meme' the word was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene to explain how cultural information spreads. The internet meme is just a subset of the same concept.
JBgk TIL that women seeking an abortion in Texas are required to view a sonogram, as well as hear a description and the heartbeat of the fetus 24 hours before they can legally decide to have the procedure
GWXG TIL every year in the mekong river in Thailand, hundreds of fireballs erupt from the surface of the water, and nobody knows what causes them. locals believe a mythical serpent called Naga spits fire from the water. The event is known as Naga fireballs.
xV7D1 TIL that lodestones (natural magnetic stones) are very probably made when a lightning strikes ferrite stones ; a scientist proved it by sending a small rocket containing this type of stone into a storm cloud and the stone returned magnetic