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TIL That Jack in the Box was sued for running ads saying that Carl's Jr and Hardees were selling burgers made of cow anus

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loKYB TIL Before he died in 1998, Chinese President Yang Shangkun told his army doctor that the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4 had been the most serious mistake committed by the Communist Party in its history
jaR TIL Christian Bale based Patrick Bateman on Tom Cruise and his “very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes”
wyrP TIL That out of the 238 years that the United States of America has been a nation, 216 of those years has been in conflict or war, which is about 90% of the time.
VQ5Q TIL John Langley, creator of the TV show “COPS”, intentionally shows more white criminals on the show than black ones, despite it being the opposite statistically. He still receives numerous complaints for portraying African Americans badly.
7NGP TIL the phrase “By and large” has a naval origin, meaning a ship that can sail by (nearly against) the wind, and large (with a backing wind) - i.e. “it’s a good ship, by and large.”