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TIL McDonald’s McNuggets only come in 4 shapes - and they each have a name

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b9Nya TIL collie dog Rob Roy was President Coolidge's favorite among a menagerie of pets that included dogs, birds, cats, and raccoons. According to Harry Truman, Coolidge ordered Senator Morris Sheppard to surrender his sausage to Rob Roy, whilst they were having breakfast.
yQXw8 TIL Alexander Mackenzie was the first European to cross North America (north of Mexico)
N7LME TIL that when an amateur historian found the bodies of the Romanov family in 1979 it was kept hidden until the fall of the Soviet Union.
epVn6 TIL About the Festival of the Exploding Hammers in San Juan de la Vega, Mexico. Young men strap explosives to sledgehammers and slam them against sheet metal to make something that looks like it came from Looney Tunes.
oLxW TIL Paraguay’s first dictator, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, forbade colonial citizens from marrying one another and allowed them to marry only blacks, mulattoes or natives, in order to break the power of colonial-era elites and to create a mixed-race or mestizo society.