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TIL McDonald's in India do not serve beef.

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XOVr TIL that when a sample of radiologists were asked to examine a stack of CT scans for nodules indicative of cancer, 83% of them failed to notice a gorilla photoshopped into some of the images.
69dJ TIL that one member of Pussy Riot band, participated in a public orgy in 2008 while being pregnant.
xvL5 TIL Robin Williams only made $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. “Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting as a way of thanking him for his work.”
Zp7JQ TIL 2 boys from California ran away from home ending up living in the Canadian wilderness. They then received aid from residents of a nearby town until their parents saw them on a news report. They had been "missing" for 10 months.
D1X8p TIL, Pete Ham and Tom Evans, the songwriters of the song "Without You" (hit singles for Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey) both committed suicide. Ham's suicide was because of financial troubles and Evans' suicide was because of a dispute over songwriting royalties for this song.