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TIL Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?” Lady was fired after she appeared in a Prego ad saying, “I found it!”

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R7VV6 TIL of the murder of Henryk Siwiak. It's the only recorded homicide in New York on September the 11th, 2001, as the city does not include the deaths from the attacks in the official crime statistics; the murder remains unsolved.
BdRK TIL the first McDonald drive-thru was opened near a military base to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.
kJ1wW TIL that after Roman consul Publius Claudius Pulcher lost a major battle against the Carthaginians, his sister, Claudia, became infamous when, obstructed in a street blocked by poorer citizens, she wished aloud that her brother would lose another battle so as to thin the crowd.
wob6Y TIL That Digimon: The Movie Used "All Star" by Smash Mouth, One year before Shrek did
b9WKZ TIL there's a word «mamihlapinatapai» that describes the situation when two people look to each other, wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin