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TIL That McDonald’s daily customer traffic is larger than the population of Great Britain.

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loyNN TIL your body will dissolve loose pieces of bone in your body after a fracture
gM54A TIL of Gus the Central Park Zoo Polar Bear (1985-2013). Reporters dubbed him "neurotic", "depressed", "flaky", and "bipolar" turning him into a "symbol of the stress of living in New York City". As part of his therapy and treatment, Gus was the first zoo animal in history to be treated with Prozac.
Lkxjv TIL : Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin.Surviving examples of human skin bindings have often been commissioned, performed, or collected by medical doctors, who have access to cadavers, sometimes those of executed criminals.
Jkwm TIL that three years after signing with Don King, Mike Tyson didn’t even know that he had a fan club. When he finally went there, he found a letter from a woman wondering if Tyson could call her dying child. Tyson called, “hung up, cursed King and started to cry. The call was a year too late.”
XEnE6 TIL The first known use of "toast" as a metaphorical term for "you're dead" was in the film Ghostbusters (1984), in which Bill Murray's character declares, "This chick is toast", before attacking the villain. The earliest known printed account is from The St. Petersburg Times of Oct. 1, 1987.