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TIL that Dave Thomas, founder and chief executive officer of fast-food restaurant Wendy's, was born to a young unmarried woman he never knew. Thomas also dropped out of high school to work full-time and did not graduate until 1993, when he obtained a GED.

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69Lo7 TIL there is a species of jumping spider in Africa which specializes in feeding on blood-filled female mosquitoes.
xVPeb TIL in the US radio-controlled clocks precisely coordinate time shifts with the official atomic clock at the Physical Measurement Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The atomic clock keeps time for the entire country and will neither gain or lose a second over the course of 100 million years.
9dEX TIL Rome and Carthage ended their 2100 year war in 1985 when the mayors of the respective cities signed a peace treaty.
VwR0 TIL natural vaginal lubrication is mostly blood plasma that seeps through engorged vaginal walls during female arousal.
AD6Ag TIL there is an international standard for writing the date called ISO 8601, that uses the format YYYY-MM-DD. Although it has been around since 1988, very few countries actually use it.