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TIL McDonalds stopped using Heinz ketchup in their restaurants after the former head of Burger King took over as chief executive at Heinz

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GYpkG TIL that the landlocked country of Mongolia has a navy with only one vessel with a strength of seven men, one of whom can swim
D9ge TIL a cat named Limberbutt McCubbins is running for president with the slogan, “The Time is Meow.”
woNXY TIL WD-40 stands for Water Displacement formula 40. Developed in 1953 by the Rocket Chemical Company, it was so effective employees would steal cans.
nvkb TIL in 1934 Philo Farnsworth and RCA went to court to establish whose patent marked the beginning of TV broadcasting. In court, Farnsworth’s high school physics teacher testified that the boy, at 14 years old, first described to him the idea for a scanning tube, better known as a television.
d85OQ TIL Greenland is part of North America