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TIL 4 out of 5 millennials have never eaten a Big Mac before, showing how McDonald's is struggling to compete with new, fast-casual burger joints

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BXEk TIL that Star Trek’s Benedict Cumberbatch forfeited his chances to go to Oxford University and Cambridge University because he discovered “pot, girls and music” and “got lazy” during his last term of the British equivalent of high school.
yQv6M TIL Cotton in pill bottles serves no purpose today (actually recommended to remove), but is a continued practice because consumers got used it. It was first inserted by Bayer in the early 1900s so their powdery pills wouldn’t break.
6EeRJ in terms of their brain chemistry, introverts have a lower threshold of dopamine sensitivity than extroverts (dopamine is a chemical associated with reward because it makes us feel good). Essentially, the lower your dopamine threshold, the more easily stimulated you are.
8wRb TIL that the Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
0w5K5 TIL There are twice as many bathrooms as necessary as the Pentagon because planners had to design the it for black and white employees, including “white” and “colored” cafeterias. However, Pres. Roosevelt made Jim Crow laws illegal on Federal property prior to its opening and was never enforced.