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TIL that Guantanamo Bay has a McDonalds.

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0dddA TIL that the DeFeo family (Amityville Horror) was “mobbed up”. Ronald DeFeo Sr. was the nephew of powerful Genovese captain Peter “Philie Aquilino” DeFeo (pictured below) who was one of their top earners in his prime.
pov8 TIL that a clock at a university in New Zealand that runs on changes in air pressure and temperature has been running nearly continuously without being wound since its construction in 1864, stopping only when it needed to be cleaned or moved.
e0LAD TIL that in his book, The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagen offered up a "Baloney Detection Kit" to help people determine if something is true or BS.
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