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TIL Hooters in China is known as “American Owl Restaurant”

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VMYP0 TIL George Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the Directors’ Guild because they insisted on a traditional credit sequence for A New Hope and he wanted to start it with the now-iconic opening crawl.
dDwr TIL it is believed that the invention of the wheel was so challenging that it probably happened only once, in one place. Before its invention in 3500 B.C., humans were already casting metal alloys, constructing canals and sailboats, and even designing complex musical instruments such as harps.
9wkGD TIL:A billionaire spent decades giving away his fortune so he could die broke.
dDVnE TIL of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, a Saudi who was the heaviest man alive at 1,340 lb. When Saudi King Abdullah heard of this, Khalid was ordered to a medical center in Riyadh. In about four years, Khalid would weigh 150 lb.
D1OPY TIL Emmy Noether, one of the most important mathematicians of all time, was denied a salary for 16 years because German universities objected to her being a women.