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TIL McDonald's is the largest toy distributor in the world
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TIL that Shenzen is the only Chinese city that forbids eating cats and dogs.
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TIL that during filming of a music video for a Nine Inch Nails song the ropes holding a camera, used to film Trent Reznor's "dead" body, snapped. The balloon carrying the camera brought it 200 miles to a farmer's field in Michigan. A farmer gave it to the FBI who investigated it as a snuff film.
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TIL that Superman actor Christopher Reeve was interested in Scientology until he was auditing and told them about a “past life” that was really a story from Greek mythology; he was disillusioned that they believed his lie and stopped pursuing Scientology
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TIL in 1961 Donald Reid built a Flying Submarine. It was demonstrated on 9 June 1964 where it dove to a depth of 6.5 feet (2 m) then flew to an altitude of 33 ft (10 m) .
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TIL that in 1977, a boycott was launched against Nestlé when it was found that they were giving free samples of baby formula to new mothers in Africa and then charging for it as soon as they were unable to switch back to breastfeeding. This caused high infant mortality and development problems.