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TIL that in 2009, Burger King launched the “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign, offering a free Whopper to anyone who deleted 10 Facebook friends—and then notifying those friends why they were deleted.

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1NeP TIL in 1968, having deemed 11 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons too politically incorrect to air, United Artists withheld them from syndication. The “Censored 11” haven’t aired on TV since, but clips have crept online, giving today’s audiences a window into cringeworthy racist stereotypes.
4rBa TIL that in a study of 26,437 women, 84% of them said that the penis size of their significant other was just fine. Numbers that large strongly suggest the findings are truly valid.
mVAx TIL McPizza failed in part because the size of the box was too big to fit through the Drive-Thru Window
YpZbd TIL that the sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i was never annexed by the US by treaty; it was overthrown by the US military in 1893, and, after some shifting of power structure, has subsequently been illegally militarily occupied as a US territory, and eventually as a state after a 1959 referendum vote.
9YJGQ TIL despite the Romans using lead water pipes, lead poisoning from the water supply system was almost nonexistent since the high calcium content in their water created a layer of plaque preventing the water contacting the lead itself.