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TIL Grimace from McDonald's is an enormous taste bud

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AyAx TIL that 8 of the top pharmaceutical companies in America spend more on marketing than on research and development
R7wv6 TIL the bubonic plague killed an estimated 200 million people and it took Eurasia 200 years to recover lost population
e0kE5 TIL in 2005, a strip club in Bloise, Idaho, managed to sidestep city laws banning total nudity in public by offering customers the chance to make drawings depicting its dancers. The law forbids full nudity in public unless the display has "serious artistic merit".
Eg0aW TIL actor Brian Blessed, known for many over the top roles, helped to deliver a baby in a park in the 1960's. He even bit through the umbilical cord!
GYRbN TIL that, after the Norman Conquest of England, nobles referred to the meat they ate in French, but the peasants who raised animals for meat referred to them in Anglo-Saxon. This is why modern English has words such as beef and pork for meat, but cow and pig for the animals it comes from.