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Today I learned you can get skin burns from peppers.

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9jG TIL Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s was reluctant to introduce the now famous “Super-Size” meals as he felt people did not need the extra food.
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m1PnE TIL that Communist Romania hated the Dracula story but was becoming dependant on Western tourism. A local functionary in the county of Bistriţa managed to trick the authorities into letting him open two Dracula themed hotels, one based on the inn that Jonathan Harker stays at in the book.
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