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TIL A&W introduced a burger that was bigger and less expensive than McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, but it failed because customers assumed 1/3 was less than 1/4.

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1D17 TIL that there are 14 people in the world with ‘keys’ to internet worldwide security ( 7 primary keepers, 7 back-up). They serve as a last-resort measure to reconstruct the system if something calamitous were to happen to the internet.
70EO TIL cup stacking girl Rachael Nedrow didn’t know Skrillex had sampled her “Yes, oh my gosh!” on “Nice Sprites And Scary Monsters” until a friend sent her the song on YouTube, he later paid her a royalty
16xRD TIL that one of the three fatalities in the Asiana Flight 214 in 2013 crash was a survivor who tragically lost their life after being accidentally run over by a responding fire truck.
epMw5 TIL Anyone in the US can sign up to get a free horse through the Wild Horse and Burro program, provided they have the means to store and care for it.
dD8p8 TIL that there are Kmarts and Targets in Australia that have almost the same design and logos, but have nothing to do with the American stores.