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TIL McDonald's in India do not serve beef.

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v1Kk7 TIL Beats headphones, which originally retailed for $199 back in 2013, cost about $19 to manufacture. The speakers themselves cost just $1.80 to produce. There's so few parts in the actual headphones, they inserted metal pieces just to make them heavier and feel more substantial.
b46N TIL that the FBI and EPA suspected a nuclear weapons facility was illegally leaking radioactive materials but were unable to investigate due to substantial security, they asked for a meeting with top officials regarding a “terrorist threat”. Once inside they immediately served a search warrant.
EypX TIL a drug was developed in the 1970s that increases long term memory as much as 152%
ZBYQ TIL that DC Comics’ original candidate for its first headlining black superhero was the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress. Comics historian Don Markstein called it “an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all.”
07ky TIL in 2009, Burger King ran the “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign, which offered a free hamburger to anyone who deleted ten friends off Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was sending notifications to the castoffs letting them know they’d been dropped for a sandwich.