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TIL: 23% of American women in their 40s and 50s take antidepressants

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Wbxd TIL A&W tried to capitalize on the success of the Quarter Pounder by introducing a 1/3 pound burger in the 1980s. Despite being larger and outperforming the Quarter Pounder in blind taste tests, the 1/3 pounder failed because consumers didn’t know that 1/3 was bigger than ¼.
Mo7A TIL that most maps are lying to you about how big Africa really is. It’s so big that it can hold the US, Mexico, China, Western Europe and most of India.
N7K0E TIL One of the German Generals who occupied France during WWII refused to destroy Paris, and then attempted to overthrow Hitler. He was later promoted to Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Central Europe, and given a French Palace as his headquarters.
NX0Kb TIL that there exists a script developed for women by the women called Nushu. The script was invented in China for women to communicate in privacy
LkaOm TIL There's a sexually transmissible cancer which shows up in all stray dog populations around the world except Chernobyl