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TIL in 1993 Burger King Briefly Offered Table Service During Dinner Hours, Offering Popcorn As A Table Appetizer

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VMDyQ TIL of the HMS Cockchafer, a British gunboat involved in the Wanhsien Incident. Chinese soldiers tried to seize British merchant ships as compensation for a boat accidentally sunk by a British ship and the Cockchafer intervened; the Cockchafer killed over 1000 Chinese and destroyed 1000 buildings.
KOjgQ TIL If you sit at one place for hours (students, employees, truck drivers etc.), you have the risk of developing heart disease, obesity, diabetes, dementia, anxiety, indigestion, bad knees, cancer, bad back and it can shorten your life, EVEN if you workout several hours a day.
b9Mn7 TIL that only seven states have banned mandatory microchipping of humans
b9m1p TIL The founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, bought 28,000 acres of U.S. wilderness to stop the logging operations and preserve the country.
ymel TIL Scientists in the Netherlands are developing an ocean cleaning system which uses the ocean’s currents and a barrier to remove plastic waste. A 100 km long system will be deployed in 2020 to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.