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TIL buying with a credit card causes fewer pain signals in the brain than using cash.

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Ldwr TIL In the 1920s a new species of hominid was discovered in China and given to the United States during WW2 to protect it from the Japanese. The nearly 200 fossils went missing during the attack on Pearl Harbor and have not been seen since.
Z8GMY TIL McDonalds lost their Big Mac trademark in the European Union after a legal battle with the Supermac's fast food chain in Ireland.
yVj4w TIL the full development archive of a SpongeBob PS1 game was leaked after the developer, Climax Studios, sold off their assets on eBay. In the leaked files, there exists concept art sketches (apparently created by a dev) that depict SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy having anal sex.
bjxa TIL at full sprint a cheetah spends more time flying than in contact with the ground
b9n4a TIL that following Kobain's death, Dave Grohl started Foo Fighters as a small side project. When asked later about the name, he responded "Had I actually considered this to be a career, I probably would have called it something else, because it's the stupidest fucking band name in the world."