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Reply to comment by JetScootr in TIL that Chick-fil-A started in 1961, after founder S. Truett Cathy found a fryer that cooked chicken as quickly as a fast food burger. Chick-fil-A licensed the sandwich to 50 restaurants, including Waffle House, until 1967, when the first standalone Chick-fil-A was opened. by jdward01

> forcing employees to obey their reigious rules as much as law allows.

You say this like the employees don’t like working there or are forced to work there. Literally anyone applying for a job at a business that is very obviously religious, and then getting butthurt that they’re religious is a complete and total idiot. And if by “forcing employees to obey their religious rules” such as not having to work on sundays, than sure. The hate boner for chick fil a on this subreddit has always been funny

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Reply to comment by MeanGreanHare in TIL Helen Keller is credited with having introduced the Akita, a Japanese dog breed, to the United States by berkosaurus

She wasn’t a fraud, however she was born into a wealthy southern family (you can guess how they got wealthy) and she essentially had as much help as a person could have. go and read her Wikipedia and you’ll see she had staunch support from essentially the most famous, wealthy, and influential people in America, the likes of Mark Twain and Henry Huddleston Rogers.

She definitely had some great accomplishments, and was actually deaf and blind. but yeah if she wasn’t born and raised as privileged as a person could be, she would’ve gone the same way any other deaf and blind infant would’ve gone, which isn’t a very good way.

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Reply to comment by Its_Nitsua in TIL Helen Keller is credited with having introduced the Akita, a Japanese dog breed, to the United States by berkosaurus

That isn’t why she was an advocate though. She literally didn’t view herself as somebody that would qualify for euthanasia lol she was completely hypocritical. She was the daughter of slave owning elites that were high ranking members of the confederate army, it’s not really that shocking she developed some controversial and tone deaf/hypocritical views.

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Reply to comment by einherjar81 in TIL that according to a Children's Sugar Consumption Survey, children eat 22.862 sugar snacks a week on average on Pennsylvania, the most of any state in the United States (Lowest: Utah, 4.830) by B0rtles

Pennsyvania in general is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to unhealthy completely empty snacks. It seems like 98% of potato chips are from Hanover Pennsylvania, and there’s basically nothing there except distribution centers lol

There’s also Hershey’s which probably doesn’t help either

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Reply to comment by Landlubber77 in TIL Frankenstein did not have a hunchback assistant called Igor in either Mary Shelley's novel or the original Universal and Hammer films. The character is a pastiche of multiple characters across several movies. by BringsHomeBones

Yeah, in the book he has superhuman intelligence and can run like 10,000 mph. Meanwhile in popular culture he’s this lumbering oaf that can barely move let alone speak lol

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Reply to comment by revfds in TIL Mountain Gorillas almost never drink water. They get their hydration from from their plant diet and morning dew. Despite living in rainforests, they also tend to dislike rain and try to not get wet when crossing a stream. They have never been observed drinking water in the wild before 2013 by Ainsley-Sorsby

> Providing water dishes for your house cats is really only necessary because we feed them such strong diets of dry food.

I guess this explains why my families old outdoor cat just never drank water lol

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Reply to TIL the FDA’s Food Defect Action Levels Handbook details the acceptable levels of contaminants of food from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, “foreign matter”, mold, rodent hairs, and insect and mammalian feces. by anogre8me

As a refrigeration technician, yall should see what the inside of an average restaurant ice machine looks like. Even the places that gets theirs cleaned every 3 months like recommended have nasty ice machines.

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Reply to comment by Swedishboy360 in TIL that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong apparently filled out and signed customs forms when returning from the moon in 1969. by The_Critical_Cynic

And in many ways he had the scariest job out of all of them. Literally flew around the moon alone for a day and there were times he was outside of radio contact. His job was possibly the most isolated and alone a human being has ever been lol. His autobiography is a good read

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