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TIL A&W introduced a burger that was bigger and less expensive than McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, but it failed because customers assumed 1/3 was less than ¼.

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kk0g TIL Israel has been selling American military secrets to China for quite some time.
VRZB TIL Genghis Khan once sent a 500 man caravan to establish trade ties, only to receive nothing in return and to have the whole caravan executed. Genghis Khan responded to this act of greed by executing the Shah responsible by pouring molten silver into his eyes and ears.
nKpY TIL that the US Department of Homeland Security intentionally dropped USB sticks in government building parking lots to see what would happen. Up to 90% of them were then plugged into government or government contractors’ computers by curious employees, exposing a major security problem.
GbK5 TIL Iranians still use the ancient form of air conditioning called the badgir. It is a tower with vents on top and allows cool air to accelerate down into a building. Zion National Park in Utah has a modern example of this, where temps reach over 100 F, the visitors center stays at cool 73 F.
ZZ0Y TIL there’s a town in Ontario called “Swastika”. There have been several attempts to change the name but the town fights back saying “To hell with Hitler. We had the swastika first”.