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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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NkvN TIL that to save cost and avoid faulty code in the 60’s, IBM created the ’ IBM Black Team’ which was a group of debuggers who were both respected and feared amongst the other developers.
X1Ek TIL a young American applied for and got a job as a reporter - reporting in Japanese - at the biggest Japanese daily, and went on to uncover a deal between a major yakuza boss and the FBI.
LkL5p TIL United Way set a world record by releasing almost one-and-a-half million balloons that resulted in unexpected disaster. The event was intended to be a harmless fundraising publicity stunt, but the balloons drifted back over the city, Lake Erie, and landed in the surrounding area.
5V9Rp TIL that when Saddam Hussein was hiding in bunkers too deep for any bomb in the US inventory, the US filled an entire 16-foot hardened steel artillery barrel with explosives, welded fins to it and airdropped it, creating the first 'Bunker Buster'. Iraq withdrew from Kuwait the very next day.
oRxgA TIL about Shani Shingnapur, an Indian village without doors or locks where residents rely on supernatural protection and community trust to prevent crime.