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TIL of Friedman’s Golden Arches Theory that no two countries with MacDonalds have ever gone to war

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LkRZ TIL that Helen Keller was a radical socialist and the FBI monitored her because of it
mgGo TIL of Ryan Frederick: A Virginia man who shot a cop during a no knock raid on his home in the middle of the night looking for a cannabis grow operation. Frederick thought it was a burglar and the cops only found a koi pond and Japanese maples and a small amount of cannabis. He was given 10 years.
WrOB TIL that Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia’s autopsy found a bottle cap, a pipe screen, a mascara brush, and a key, in his intestine.
D1vPD TIL about the Overton window, which defines what political ideas the mainstream sees as radical according to what they're used to, even if they are not in fact radical.
DjQe TIL while researching for the film Castaway, screenwriter William Broyles Jr. chose to strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Gulf of California to force himself to search for water and food and obtain his own shelter.