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TIL that in Australia, Burger King is called “Hungry Jack’s”

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LkjwQ TIL that the piano used to record “Hey Jude” by the Beatles was the same piano Freddie Mercury used to record “Bohemian Rhapsody”.
epA95 TIL there is a rhinoceros-shaped cave in Washington state, formed millions of years ago when lava cooled around a rhinoceros carcass.
XE4Ok TIL that a cat named Barney "the cemetery cat," beloved by his community, is buried in his own plot after providing comfort to mourners at a cemetery for 20 years.
oRKGA TIL that the nomenclature for multiples of a thousand is different in the U.S. vs. the U.K. and the French. For example, a thousand times a thousand is a million in both. Times a thousand again becomes, in the U.S., a billion, whereas in the U.K. it becomes a thousand million, or milliard.
5GPD TIL that “Anna Kournikova” is a hand in Poker that “looks better than it plays”.