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TIL that in Australia, burger king restaurants are called 'Hungry Jacks' as a small chip shop had claimed that name

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GAXD4 TIL Dobro resonator guitars; with large metallic, sound plates, are much louder. All metal-body resonator guitars inspired Paul Simon's Going to Graceland line, "The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar." David Gilmour's Dobro sold for a record (no pun intended) $112,500. in 1979.
0wxEj TIL that in her wedding in 1981 Princess Diana deviated from tradition and omitted the line in which she promised to "obey" Prince Charles.
R5RY6 TIL of The British Doctor's Study of 40,000 doctors was a 50 year long study that was the first to provide evidence of a causal link between smoking and lung cancer.
wLDMM TIL that early on Human Genome Project was opposed by 80% of biologists
awykM TIL that in 1965 the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear device near the Chagan river to create an artificial lake with a volume of about 10 million cubic metres under it's Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program. To date the lake is slightly radioactive and is nicknamed "the atomic lake".