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TIL The directors of Despicable Me wrote a language, minion-eise, for the Minions

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pYEpb TIL that in the 1980s, A&W launched their third-pounder burger to compete with the quarter-pounder. Confused about low sales, they conducted a study and found that around half the participants thought a third was smaller than a quarter. The burger was rebranded to the "papa burger."
4XGL6 TIL that a tech billionaire is investing in tiny robots, DNA reprogramming, and artificial blood because he believes these technologies will enables humans to live to at least till 125 years old
4km5N TIL Anna Jarvis started a petition to abolish Mother's Day in 1943. However, these efforts were halted when she was placed in the Marshall Square Sanitarium in West Chester, Pennsylvania. People connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her in the sanitarium.
M7Mw7 TIL that the rock band Journey had their own Atari video game based on the album 'Escape' - almost 30 years before 'Guitar Hero: Aerosmith'.
LoNQ TIL Space shuttles have blunt tips creating as much drag as possible to create a blanket of pressure protecting the shuttle from fire while entering earth’s atmosphere