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TIL, Kraft Dinner (Mac and Cheese) is a Canadian national dish. It is the most popular grocery item in the country.

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YYBA TIL that in 2006 Werner Herzog stumbled upon a rolled car. He pulled a confused man out of the wreck after he tried to light a cigarette when there was a fuel leak. That man was Joaquín Phoenix
AN9Bg TIL So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish was written by Douglas Adams when his editor Sonny Mehta, locked him in a hotel room to force him to write it after becoming fed up with Adams constantly procrastinating and failing to meet deadlines.
VMEgk TIL over a century ago, poultry producers would pamper their flocks as winter approached to encourage hens to continue laying eggs. Today, the industry instead uses a technique of starving hens for 1-2 weeks. The practice is banned in the EU as inhumane, but is widely used in the US.
N7mYM TIL that huge shares of Tencent is not owned by chinese, but by a company in Europe, which is inturn owned by a South African MNC.
N74DE TIL people are more likely to cheat on their spouse when they are on a diet due to willpower being an exhaustible mental resource.