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TIL FATCA effectively bans Americans from opening bank accounts abroad

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lmWB TIL Disney quietly cut ties with McDonalds in 2006 so as not to be associated with childhood obesity
epVdJ TIL the majority of ancient Greeks and Romans that were literate read out loud. Reasons for this include a lack of space between letters and no formalized system of punctuation that helped with pauses in reading.
VWlm TIL there is a species of orchid which produces a narcotic nectar to cause a drug addiction in their wasp pollinators.
xV5KB TIL that bloodtransfusions for newborns below 4 months of age need to be compatible to the blood type of the mother, not of the newborn due to newborns not creating their own antibodies, but instead only having maternal ones.
9LjG TIL Henry Johnson, a WWI veteran, saved his friend from over 20 German soldiers by himself by using his rifle as a club and then proceeding to attack the rest with his bolo knife.