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TIL about the "McEmbassy." Every McDonald’s in Austria has a 24-hour hotline to the US Embassy to help American travellers who are in distress or have lost their passports.

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wJ4P TIL in 2012 Germany agreed to provide compensation to a new category of Nazi victims — 80,000 Jews who fled ahead of the advancing German army and eventually resettled in the former Soviet Union. As of 2012, Germany has paid $89 billion in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since 1952.
dmr9 TIL carrots used to be purple until they were bred orange.
X0LGr TIL The Viet Minh signed a treaty to pay the French 5 billion francs after the Indochina War to buy the rights to the Tonkin collieries in North Vietnam. The sum was payable by means of coal shipments over 15 years.
wLadE TIL the 1990 film Home Alone was titled "Mom I Missed the Plane" in France.
E158w TIL Nicolas Cage was considered for the role of Randy "The Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler. When taken to a live event, he thought wrestling was real like UFC! In the end, the crew had a meeting where it was determined that Cage looked too healthy for the part, so the role went to Mickey Rourke.