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TIL Burger King Russia offered free Whoppers for life to any woman who got pregnant by a World Cup 2018 player. The company later apologized.

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8Wk8 TIL that when the Brazilian battleship São Paulo was being towed across the Atlantic to be scrapped, her towlines were snapped by a storm and she drifted away. Despite British and American aircraft scouring the Atlantic for her, no sign of her or her 8 crew members were ever found.
ZLJ4 TIL that Sri Lanka and India were connected as recently as the 15th century by a chain of limestone shoals known as “Adam’s Bridge”
9Y9R6 TIL some marine isopods have alpha males which are large and guard a harem of females, and beta and gamma males which pretend to be females or juveniles to sneak in to the harem and mate with the his females
9wlpp TIL in 2001, Disneyland tried to re-theme their aging "Submarine Voyage" attraction around Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but the movie flopped. They tried again with Treasure Planet, but that was a flop too. They finally succeeded with Finding Nemo in 2005.
69plJ TIL only female mosquitoes are the ones that suck blood for egg production. Males just sip on plant juices