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TIL that Mcdonalds serves “McSpaghetti” in the Philippines.

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69PJZ TIL: Over the past 3 years gambling addiction has grown by 30% according to the National Council on Problem Gaming (NCPG) with online betting, sports betting, slots, table games, and mobile gambling coupled with the pandemic. The "social cost" of gambling is estimated to be $7 billion annually.
Yppjv TIL There are bugs that look exactly like leaves.
yQZQp TIL John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric hotel owner who’d accommodated Monty Python. Sinclair threw Eric Idle’s briefcase out of a window because he mistook it for a bomb, and criticised Terry Gilliam’s table manners because he was American.
rlXW TIL in 1984 five Argentinians crossed the Atlantic. The boat was a raft of 13.6 meters long by 5.8 meters wide, built of logs, rudderless and with only a candle. The aim was to prove that 3500 years before Christopher Columbus, African sailors may have accidentally reached the shores of America.
dpl9 TIL that in 1981 IBM asked Microsoft for a 16-bit operating software. Microsoft didn’t have one and didn’t want to build one, so they spent $75,000 on someone else’s software, tinkered with it a bit and MS-DOS was born.