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TIL White Castle is the oldest burger chain, beating out McDonald's by 27 years

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dLB7 TIL: A scientist let a computer program a chip, using natural selection. The outcome was an extremely efficient chip, the inner workings of which were impossible to understand.
WknkN TIL Noted author Neil Gaiman's father, David, was a prominent figure in the church of Scientology in the UK. Neil, at age 7, was interviewed about it. He has long since left the church.
9J47 TIL: As a Presidential candidate in 1968, Richard Nixon secretly sabotaged a peace deal in Vietnam. The war went on for 5 more years.
E1DYW TIL in 1724 Margaret Dickson was hanged but later found still alive. She then was allowed to go free because under Scots Law her punishment had been carried out. Only later were the words “until dead” added to the sentence of hanging
pxeN TIL In 1987, the US Army’s Night Stalkers stole an Russian attack helicopter from a desert in Chad