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TIL White Castle was the country’s first fast food chain when it opened in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas

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7r45M TIL that staying awake for more than 24 hours brings deficiencies in performance equivalent to having a blood alcohol level of more than 0.10. Most western developed countries consider 0.05 BAC as the threshold for intoxication.
EOOX TIL: China has a National Pole Dancing Team.
mxp5E TIL that Oville Wright, who co-invented the airplane, lived til 1948. So he made the first working airplane in 1903 and say Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier just 43 years later.
bWb9 TIL many years after Octavian agreed to Cicero’s name being placed on the proscription list, Octavian found his grandson reading a book by Cicero, he took it from him, read a bit of it, and then returned it saying: “He was a learned man, dear child, a learned man who loved his country”.
J19xm TIL during Prohibition, winemakers sold "grape bricks" concentrated grape juice blocks with labels warning customers not to leave them in a cupboard for 20 days, lest they "accidentally" turn into wine.