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TIL the Filet-O-Fish was invented due to falling hamburger sales on Fridays resulting from Roman Catholic practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays.

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O1n1 TIL: During the Third Reich, there was a programme called Lebensborn, where ‘racially pure’ women slept with SS officers in the hopes of producing Aryan children. An estimated 20,000 children were born during 12 years.
Bybb TIL that magician and skeptic James Randi created an organization in that will give $1,000,000US to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal ability.
Lk16d TIL Nintendo will not allow the creator of Super Mario to bike to work because they consider his safety to be too important
Y5oZ TIL that a group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners volunteered to tackle the nuclear crisis that happened at Fukushima power station saying “they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young”
b6pZ7 TIL The sliding door dates back to atleast the 1st century CE with archeological evidence found in Pompeii.