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TIL that the founders of Outback Steakhouse have never been to Australia

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j6rpR TIL the Bony-eared assfish has the smallest known brain-to-body weight ratio of all vertebrates.
nx1d TIL in 1858 a sweets seller in Bradford, England known as Humbug Billy accidentally produced peppermint humbugs containing lethal doses of arsenic killing approximately 20 people.
loZwB TIL George Washington gave the shortest inauguration speech of all time(135 words) and John Adams waited 9 months to be sworn in for his second term as Vice President
1KGr TIL that at one point over 5000 Americans thought that 078-05-1120 was their SSN…because it was printed on a sample card that was included in Woolworth wallets.
p8Q1p TIL The symbol "℞", sometimes transliterated as "Rx", is recorded in 16th century manuscripts as an abbreviation of the late Latin instruction recipe, meaning 'take thou'. Originally abbreviated Rc, the later convention of using a slash to indicate abbreviation resulted in the modern common symbol.