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TIL McDonald’s has a website just for Black people

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r7KW TIL the honeyguide bird uses calls that it only makes to humans to guide them to bee hives. It then expects it’s share of honey in return.
0Byj TIL that for centuries in mainland Europe groups of people would just start dancing for days to months at a time & no one knows why. They broke ribs, collapsed bridges, and even died until in the 17th century the behavior halted abruptly and completely.
b9y9Q TIL that the five-digit zip code didn’t exist until the 60s, wasn’t mandatory until the 70s, and the plus-four didn’t exist until the 80s.
1rdr TIL that Japan has aboriginal people called the Ainu.
Br0rW TIL that when the Catholic Church wanted to canonize someone, there was a church official, the advocatus diaboli, whose sole job was to argue against that person's qualifications for sainthood. Advocatus diaboli is latin for "Devil's advocate."