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TIL That the Million Dollar 1988 McDonalds record winner was 13, had his mom claim it, she squandered a good chunk of it, had her BF steal what was left, lost his mom 10 years later, doesn’t talk to his sister and now trims trees

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XEJa8 TIL About “Coffin Clubs”- groups of old people in New Zealand who are banding together to make their own funeral caskets. They say that it helps combat loneliness and is a cost-effective way of having a coffin. They also make baby coffins and donate them to local hospitals.
4A7o TIL there is no such thing as a 24 hour flu, you have been the lucky recipient of food poisoning.
nWyYb TIL that there is a "witch window" also known as a "Vermont window," found almost exclusively in Vermont. These slanted windows are installed at a 45-degree angle in the gable-end wall of a house and are designed to prevent witches from flying into the home on their brooms.
e0gGD TIL the birthing position used on movies and TV shows is the most painful type for pretty much all women. It is not typically recommended anywhere in the world.
4Oa5 TIL there is a World Swastika Rehabilitation Day, where “the goal is to return the swastika’s true meaning of peace and harmony to this ancient symbol regretfully hijacked by the Nazis”