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TIL There are more Museums in America than Starbucks and McDonald’s combined.

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AN0bB TIL in 2011 the UK tried to eradicate all rats from Henderson Island. Only 50 individuals on a population of 50 000 survived, enough for them to grow back to their original numbers.
wLek6 TIL Brigitte Höss, daughter of Rudolf Höss (Commandant of Auschwitz), was employed by a Jewish couple in Washington DC in the 70s. "They saw her as a person, in her own right, apart from her father".
wQa6 TIL that none of the couples from “The Bachelor” are still married.
oBLWE TIL Between 1951 and his death in 1985, Yul Brynner gave 4,625 performances as the King of Siam in “The King and I” on stage, which at the time was a Broadway record for a single role. He is also one of only nine people to win a Tony and an Oscar for the same role.
wLA0J TIL there are HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF LOCUST SWARMING EAST AFRICA!!!!