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TIL McDonald’s fries contain 17 ingredients

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N5xP TIL In 1904, tea bags were invented accidentally. The inventor, Thomas Sullivan, decided that it was cheaper to send small samples to potential customers in silk bags instead of boxes. The recipients believed they were meant to be dunked and soon Sullivan was flooded with orders for his “tea bags”.
KY8KE TIL legendary footballer Lionel Messi's first contract was written on a restaurant napkin during a meeting with FC Barcelona executives. That napkin is now held in a safe in the Credit Andorra bank.
dM6K TIL that there is a large area over Brazil where the Earth’s magnetic field has weakened, it is so large that NASA powers down it’s satellites when passing over.
6E0WX TIL The Shroud of Turin, the alleged linen cloth covering the burial of Jesus, was closely examined in 1988 in laboratories in Switzerland, England and the United States using carbon-14 dating techniques. The study concluded that it originated in the Middle Ages between 1260 and 1390.
loGwN TIL the song "867-5309/Jenny" produced a glut of prank calls to unlucky folks who happened to have that phone number across the country