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TIL Marion County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation after one of its officers said he suspected someone had taken a bite out of a McChicken sandwich. They concluded that the officer forgot he took a bite of his sandwich.

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LQ7Lr TIL that Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s steamship the "Great Eastern" (1858) could reach Australia without refuelling and carry up to 4000 passengers. It was so enormous that it was launched sideways into the Thames and remained the world’s largest ship by length, tonnage, and capacity for 40 years.
4XOya TIL that WW1 could have ended hours earlier, but one man wanted to wait until "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month". ~11,000 men were wounded or killed waiting for the Armistice to take effect
VBv0p TIL after receiving many letters from blind fans of his video games, Kenji Eno sought to create one that both sighted & blind players could experience equally. So he made the blank-screen game, Real Sound: Kaze no Regret. Sega got the rights by agreeing to donate 1K consoles to the visually impaired
mxVeo TIL in 1976, a woman sued Disney for $150,000 because she claimed that one of the Three Little Pigs grabbed and fondled her. Allegedly she gained 50 pounds due to the incident, but dropped charges after Disney's lawyers presented her with a photo of the costume, which had only inoperable stub arms.
yQXnX TIL Paranormal psychic believers and skeptics showed no differences on tasks of memory distortion, autobiographical memory distortion, or working memory capacity. But skeptics consistently outperformed believers on several tasks tapping analytical or logical thinking as well as vocabulary.