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TIL in 2009 a man in Iceland bought and saved the last McDonald’s burger ever sold in the country and donated it to Iceland’s national museum. You can now watch the burger via a live webcam.

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6EwOY TIL The Republic of Cospaia had no rulers, no judiciary, and no written laws. After 385 years of freedom, the republic's existence was ended by the Pope in 1826. As compensation, each citizen of Cospaia received a silver coin.
7rEE7 Virgin Orbit says it is close to launching a rocket to orbit for the first time, after it performed a successful test over the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles.
KO1rQ TIL Johnny Cash worked as a radio operator in the US Air Force and was the first person to learn of Stalin's death when he received and decoded the Morse code transmission being sent out globally from Moscow.
bVoZ TIL Cocoa beans were used as currency in Mayan and Aztec societies and 10 beans could buy a prostitute and 100 beans for a slave.
a8E7J TIL that during WWII, Ford's mile-long assembly line at ‘Willow Run Plant” produced B-24’s at a peak rate of nearly one every hour (~63min). A symbol of American industrial might, exemplifying how industry (and some 6 Million women) pivoted to support the war effort, vital to Allied victory: