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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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D7Yj TIL that it is hard to fool the brain by providing it with ‘energyless’ sweet flavours. Our pleasure in consuming sweet solutions is driven to a great extent by the amount of energy it provides: greater reward in the brain is attributed to sugars compared to artificial sweeteners.
loQOG Today I learned that Alucard can't be summoned on Wii Fit Studio because Alucard is a vampire, there's a giant mirror, and vampires don't have a reflection.
wLPwP TIL The Great Gatsby was originally a failure when released in 1925 and only became popular when it was mass printed and sent to soldiers during World War 2. 1944, only 120 copies of Gatsby sold, today it sells over 500,000 each year.
mx67Y TIL of the album, Everywhere at the end of time; a musical series consisting of six stages of music that simulate the effects of dementia over time. Each stage depicts various stages of symptoms of dementia as it progresses.
GY81j TIL until the 1970s, lookism in the United States was sometimes codified into law. In many jurisdictions, so-called "ugly laws" barred people from appearing in public if they had diseases or disfigurements that were considered unsightly