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TIL Japan has a lower obesity rate than North Korea

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p8N9Q TIL that Burger King is called ’Hungry Jack’s’ in Australia because some bloke in Adelaide already had a snack stand called Burger King and wouldn't change it, so BK gave Jack (the original franchisee) some choices on names and he chose Hungry Jack’s.
6EZ7X TIL The cliché "It was a dark and stormy night" originally opened a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, about a highwayman sentenced to death by a judge who turns out to be his father. Bulwer-Lytton infamously convinced Dickens to change "Great Expectations" to give it a more conventional "happy" ending.
P1dQL TIL James Dean’s car, named “Little Bastard”, killed and injured other people after the actor’s death.
Wk5bY TIL taxidermists can preserve an animal with its own brain matter through a process called "brain tanning," and an animal has enough brain matter to preserve its entire body.
RY8 TIL that comedian Dick Shawn suffered a massive heart attack onstage and died because the audience thought it was part of his act.