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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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7p9r TIL that Sunandha Kumariratana, the Queen of Thailand, drowned while her subjects watched because they were forbidden to touch her.
rlm4 TIL, Koreans reckon the pregnancy period as one year of life for infants, and age increments increase on New Year’s Day rather than on the anniversary of birthdays. Thus, one born immediately before New Year’s Day may only be a few days old in western reckoning, but two years old in Korea.
16aLd TIL that after 5 Tamil chiefs defeated the Sri Lankan king Valagamba, one of them became king but was eventually slain by another, who also became king before being slain by another, and so on until only one remained, then Valagamba returned, slew the last one and took back his throne.
ebND TIL in agoge, the Spartan youth was intentionally fed with less than adequate food so as to stoke his hunger pangs. This encouraged the youth to sometimes steal food; and on being caught, he was punished - not for stealing the food, but for getting caught.
DQn5D TIL in 1927, actress Mae West spent 10 days in jail because of the explicit nature of her stage play "Sex".