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TIL McDonald's is the largest toy distributor in the world

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5VPBB TIL that underneath Paul Klee's famous paining "Angelus Novus," which inspired Walter Benjamin's "angel of history," lies a portrait of the radical early modern theologian Martin Luther.
J1Mkk TIL The Hardy Tree in London’s St. Pancras churchyard is named for Thomas Hardy. The Victorian writer worked at the burial ground in the 1860s and rearranged tombstones around the base of an ash tree to make room for a railway expansion.
M7b7a TIL tattooing was a fad among Victorian aristocrats, especially women. They hid their ink, since it was still associated with criminals. King Edward VII, his sons, and Winston Churchill's mother all had tats. The fad spread to the US, where one paper said ~75% of upper class women were tattooed.
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LkQOV TIL During the repatriation of Cossacks from NJ to the Soviets, Barbiturates were put in their coffee to put them in a coma, for a "speedy return to Stalin's hangmen"