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TIL that Filet-O-Fish was created after a McDonald’s franchise owner complained about falling sales during the season of Lent

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LQyy0 TIL that the psychiatrist Henry Cotton would sometimes extract all of a patient's teeth as he believed infected teeth to be the cause of psychiatric disorders. If that didn't work, he'd remove testicles, ovaries, gall bladders, stomachs, spleens, cervixes and colons.
p8WRN TIL: Breakfast being “the most important meal of the day” originated in a 1944 marketing campaign launched by General Foods, the manufacturer of Grape Nuts, to sell more cereal. During the campaign, grocery stores and radio ads promoted the importance of breakfast.
69BB8 TIL that the slang term "The boonies", used to describe remote rural areas, is short for "The boondocks" which comes from the Tagalog word "Bundok", which means mountains. Boondocks was coined during the Philippine-American war of 1899.
ZEEB TIL Waterboys in the NFL make an average $53,000 salary
vdl8 TIL the highest-paid US federal employee is the CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, who makes 14 times as much as the US president.