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TIL the Big Mac was invented in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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xlp7 TIL that the band “Eagles” sued a nonprofit eagle preservation organization for the use of the word “Eagles”.
kyQ1 TIL in the first half of 2012 the National Guard spent $26,000,000 sponsoring NASCAR. This lead to 24,800 “prospects”, 20 “qualified candidates”, and no new guardsmen.
Z8jOp TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.
ZpJ6R TIL that there is an Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
N1Oe TIL that when a Soviet research ship went to check on sunken Soviet submarine K-219 in 1988, it found several of the submarine’s missile silo hatches had been forced open, and the missiles, along with their nuclear warheads, were gone.