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TIL Most of McDonald’s prizes from the late 80s til 2000 were won by employees in the promotional firm they hired to run them.

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N7VjN TIL IKEA started serving food in its stores because the owner Ingvar Kamprad learned that many customers were leaving without buying anything due to hunger. Over 1.2 billion hot dogs and 11.6 billion Swedish meatballs have been consumed since its opening.
wLMvo TIL the most successful Eurovision artist is Canadian. (Céline Dion - winner 1988)
LQyPV TIL the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 made Congressional Research Service reports publicly available on the internet for the first time.
Jx8 TIL while running for Sheriff in 1970, Hunter S. Thompson shaved his head so that he could call the conservative, crew-cut wearing incumbent his “long haired opponent.”
4kn5J TIL: Louis St. Laurent, the 12th Prime Minister of Canada, had a lifespan that overlapped with the lives of every single other Canadian PM, from Sir. John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau.