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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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8ob4 TIL Bruce Lee avoided baked goods and refined flour, describing them as providing empty calories which did nothing for his body.
BgwgL TIL that scientists gave a bunch of coked up monkeys amphetamines to see if they would stop ‘choosing’ cocaine
9wdjp TIL that ants belonging to the species Megaponera Analis rescue injured ants during battles
d86Vd TIL of Dr Randy Lovelace II, a Lt. Col. in the US Army Air Corps who worked on oxygen systems for high altitude jumps. In 1943 he volunteered to test his mask and jumped from a B17 at 40,000ft. The force of that deceleration knocked him out. tore his gloves off and frostbit his hand but he survived.
BrlnD TIL Octopuses are immune to the stings of various types of jellyfish. They know this and will often rip off the stings of man-o-war (species closely related to jellyfish) and use them as whips to defend themselves from larger predators.