› added 10 months ago

136

TIL that in the 1980s, A&W launched their third-pounder burger to compete with the quarter-pounder. Confused about low sales, they conducted a study and found that around half the participants thought a third was smaller than a quarter. The burger was rebranded to the "papa burger."

Read more culinarylore.com

via reddit.com

XOGR TIL “Mind your P’s and Q’s” actually meant keep in mind the amount of Pints and Quarts you had been drinking.
8WmZ TIL President John Quincy Adams owned an aligator which he kept in the White House
bQ4E TIL Buffalo Bill’s Father, Isaac Cody, was invited to speak at a trading post where pro-slavery men often held meetings; his antislavery speech angered the crowd, who yelled for him to step down until someone stabbed him to death.
X7Yj TIL Police had a warrant to search for drugs in an apartment, found the drugs, and then realized they were in the wrong apartment
4jrw TIL that famous 60’s radio host Wolfman Jack had two crosses burned on his lawn for playing music by black artists.