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TIL in 2005, a woman falsely claimed she found a finger in her food at Wendy's. The fast food chain suffered an estimated US$21 million in lost business. She later revealed, she cooked the finger at her home and then drove it to the Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, where she dropped it into the food.

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N7MG8 TIL that a Caesar salad at McDonald's contains more calories and fat, as well as less protein, than a double Big Mac
O8de TIL some Muslims develop a permanent scar on their foreheads from bowing to Mecca. It’s called the “prayer bump”.
W7XOL TIL about the "Green Card Lottery" the first commercial computer spam campaign (Via Usenet) which was started by the now disbarred layer Laurence Canter and his wife in 1994.
oBNYo TIL a man called David Phillips bought 12,150 pudding cups in order to successfully collect more than one million air miles. He is now known as 'the Pudding Guy'.
141r TIL a noblewoman (a widow of a samurai lord & descendent of a long line of ninjas) recruited, trained, & led an all-female group of 200-300 ninja agents—consisting of ex-prostitutes, orphans, & civil-war victims—who were successfully deployed for the Takeda clan against rival warlords in 1500s Japan