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TIL that in 2009 Burger King released a 7 patty Whopper in Japan to celebrate the release of Windows 7

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d8dGE TIL The seafloor sonar data obtained during the underwater search for Flight 370 gave scientists an unusually-large section of deep-ocean seafloor mapped at high resolution; Data revealed numerous subsea volcanoes and evidence of large submarine landslides
wLK01 TIL Zambia is the only country to have entered an Olympics as one country (Northern Rhodesia) and left the games as another. Zambia declared independence on the last day of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
9wLaB TIL every LEGO minifigure had the exact same head shape for the first 21 yrs of minifigure production, limiting what characters it could do. It wasn't until 1999 & the Jar Jar Binks minifigure for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace that LEGO introduced sculpted head pieces for its minifigures
Y7Mbr TIL: Recent data reveals that minority-owned businesses receive rejection rates are three times higher than white founders for loans - even with identical business models.
DQ05r TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was one of the ushers at Martin Luther King's funeral held at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia after his assassination in 1968.