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TIL That the Government of Argentina secretly forced McDonalds to lower the price of the Big Mac after The Economist used the Big Max Index, an informal measure of Purchasing Power Parity, to show the government had falsified data.

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8eRAP TIL that George Jetson was born today
VMVmB TIL about Alice Ball, an African American woman who, in 1915, at the age of 23 revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, by creating an soluble & injectable treatment from chaulmoogra oil.
ZEVD TIL of a woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for 2 years. Paramedics had to remove the seat, which accommpanied her to hospital, from the toilet as her skin had grown around it. Her boyfriend brought food and water and asked her to come out of the bathroom daily. She would reply “maybe tomorrow”
X5eQ TIL since 2006 pennies and nickels have had a production cost greater than their face value, resulting in a net loss to taxpayers of $436 million.
jNraR TIL The founders of the Aztec Empire were one of the first people in the world to have mandatory education for nearly all children. There were two types of schools: the telpochcalli, for practical and military studies, and the calmecac, for studies in writing, astronomy, statesmanship, theology etc