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TIL : an experiment showed kids liked food in McD boxes better then the same food in plain boxes

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d89W8 TIL that according to legend that many used to believe was fact, the founder and first King of Britain was Brutus of Troy, a descendant of a hero from the Trojan War, and he also founded Troia Nova or New Troy in what is today London. He was also supposedly the ancestor of King Arthur.
ANg9d TIL A Portugese Man of War is not a jellyfish; it’s a colony of thousands of individual animals called “zooids”
b9RJ9 TIL during the Kent State shootings, where the National Guard shot at and killed students protesting the Vietnam War, 58% of Americans believe it was the students' fault for the shootings
WnDL TIL dc comics created a super villain named “snowflame” who needs cocaine to function
R7J79 TIL that Christopher Mccandless from "Into The Wild" didn't poison himself as the novel/film says. He merely starved to death.