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TIL that Richard Nixon is the only US president to be born on the west coast, and in any mainland state west of Texas

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yVWLX TIL in the 1980s, McDonald’s used the song “Mack the Knife” in commercials that featured their character "Mac Tonight". The song “Mack the Knife” is about a knife-wielding criminal from London’s underworld who dumped the body of his victim in a river.
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