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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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ZBYQ TIL that DC Comics’ original candidate for its first headlining black superhero was the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress. Comics historian Don Markstein called it “an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all.”
loO9N TIL that Kodinhi a small town in Kerala India is reported to have a whopping 250 pairs of twins born to just 2000 families, that’s more than six times the global average and one of the highest twinning rates in the world.
PP4O TIL the only FDA approved manufacturer of coral snake antivenom in North America suddenly stopped producing it in 2003, leaving dwindling supplies that mostly expired in 2012. If you get bit by one now, chances are you are shit out of luck.
AN65a TIL the punk rocker on the San Francisco city bus blasting "I Hate You" in the 1986 movie "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" was actually a crew member, associate producer Kirk Thatcher. He convinced director Leonard Nimoy to let him write a punk music song and perform it.
6EMBl TIL Harukichi Shimoi, who was a japanese poet that during WW1 enlisted in the Italian Army and ranked up to the special elite force "Arditi"