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TIL: Burger King is called “Hungry Jack’s” in Australia, as the name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in Adelaide

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oB1Dr TIL: Leonard Nimoy only appeared once in public as Spock as the grand marshal of the Pear Blossom Parade in Medford, Oregon in 1967
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NVjE TIL that many of the child actors who played the Little Rascals were later murdered and/or convicted of murder. Also, the original dog to play Pete the Pup was assassinated in 1930.
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1aXl4 TIL researches found that bees that are under stress are more likely to interpret stimuli as threat, showing for the first time that Bees can, in fact, become pessimists when work gets too stressful.