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TIL a single Dutch restaurant is blocking Wendy’s from opening in the EU

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R5pj7 TIL about Robert Overacker, a stuntman who in 1995 attempted to ride a Jetski off of Niagara Falls and parachute to safety. The parachute failed and he fell to his death.
OoQKY TIL Indian law says there should be a polling place within 2 km (1.25) of each citizen, so authorities have to set up a polling station in a lion infested forest for ONE MAN
rRJpw TIL of Iris Robinson, an anti-gay Irish politician whose career ended after the exposure of an extramarital affair with the (40 years younger) adult child of a family friend. In response, a Facebook group was set up attempting to get the song "Mrs. Robinson" to No. 1 in the Official UK Singles Chart
Y7xV7 TIL The first mention in Western medical literature of magic mushrooms was from 1799 when a man picked mushrooms off London’s Green Park for breakfast. After stewing them for his children, his son had “fits of immoderate laughter” and daughter got vertigo
KOLK9 TIL about iridodonesis a condition in which the iris (coloured part of the eye) vibrates during eye movements. Upon moving the eye rapidly, the iris can appear to ‘dance’, or ‘tremble’ (tremulousness).