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TIL that there is a McDonald’s that is closed to the public and is just used for filming commercials.

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1yKP TIL in 2013 Charlie Sheen appeared on an episode of Conan and said that he had laughed so hard while watching Chappelle Show, he experienced a ruptured hernia and was rushed to the hospital. The producers of Two and a Half Men assumed his hospitalization was a drug overdose and fired him
QJopd TIL the 86 billion neurons in our brain resembled a chaotic jungle until 2017 when researchers, using a peculiar branch of math, saw the brain react to stimuli by building a tower of rods (1D), then planks (2D), then cubes (3D) and more (up to 11 dimensions) out of the "sand" before disintegrating.
lR85 TIL Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw is the only person to ever win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.
wKMJ TIL Physicist Richard Feynman memorized pi up to the 762nd digit, where there are six 9’s in a row, just so he could joke, “…9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 and so on…”. For this reason, this sequence of 9’s is named the Feynman Point.
Y7ebd TIL the hair braid once worn by Chinese men wasn't Chinese in origin. The last Chinese dynasty, the Qing, was founded by the Manchus who conquered China & imposed their traditional hairstyle on all men. Non-compliance was punished with execution. The practice faded out after the dynasty fell in 1912