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TIL that there is a McDonald's in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The restaurant is only accessible to the base's personnel and the chain says it has no plans to open any other branches in Cuba.

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Pn5J TIL - “Iron Eyes Cody” the “face of Native Americans” with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame was 100% Sicilian.
9YnP6 TIL when you blink your brain treats it as a tiny nap. Giving the average person between 20,000 and 30,000 two-tenths of a second naps every day, or roughly 10 percent of their waking hours.
l77l5 TIL squeezing your animals can help them relax, works for cows!
9YO7M TIL the education minister of Kazakhstan deemed SpongeBob SquarePants too violent for children, labeling the titular character a "self-absorbed hooligan" who "regularly inflicts violence on others in his community and seems to enjoy what he does."
gMad4 TIL before his death, Fidel Castro's last wish was to avoid being a "personality cult"; because of this, Cuba prohibits the use of Castro's name in the names of "institutions, parks, streets and other public places, as well as any honorary titles or medals."