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TIL IHOP owns Applebees
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TIL that 'The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening was a fan of 'Beavis and Butt-head' because "it took the heat off of Bart Simpson being responsible for the downfall of western civilization".
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TIL a unit of measurement common in Sweden and Norway, but not in Denmark, is the Scandinavian Mile, or the Mil, pronounced like meal. It is equal to 10 kilometres, but has been longer in the past.
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TIL: In March 2000, MicroStrategy announced that it had significantly overstated its revenue, causing a 62% stock drop in one day, in what is regarded as the bursting of the dot-com bubble
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TIL that the traditional maritime signal flag is today used for the opposite, indicating that a ship is free of disease
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TIL The camera on the Blackbird was so advanced that when it took a photo of a car on the ground that was 80,000 feet below it and the plane traveled at over 2,000 mph, the license plate would be visible in the photo.