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TIL McDonalds once had a broccoli flavored bubblegum
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TIL anyone who immigrated to America from 1776 to 1881 — when 87% of arrivals came from northwest Europe — had virtually no legal restrictions. Restrictions only began in 1882, when "too many Asians" began to enter, which led to a ban on Chinese citizens.
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TIL of Kinsley a small town in Kansas that's 1,561 miles (2,512 km) away from both New York City and San Francisco
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TIL: George Lucas traded 2.5% of "Star Wars" ticket sales with Steven Spielberg for 2.5 % of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" sales. Lucas did this because he was not sure that Star Wars would be profitable. Spielberg ended up making $40 Million from Star Wars.
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TIL Mithridates VI spent his whole life taking small doses of poison to build an immunity to it. When he was finally captured, he attempted to kill himself with poison but couldn’t because he was immune to it.
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TIL about the "Society for Lying In" hospital in NYC, built in 1902, it's name based on archaic term for childbirth. It's estimated that 60% of the births in Manhattan took place there.