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TIL Frank Sinatra never learned to read sheet music his whole career

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LJed TIL New Jersey’s NHL team is named after the Jersey Devil, a legendary creature encountered by many including Commodore Stephen Decatur (who fired a cannonball at it) and Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s older brother. In 1909 the creature reportedly attacked a trolley and was fired upon by police
EgG4d TIL that McDonald’s is the largest toy distributor in the world. with roughly 5000 happy meal sold every minute which translates to 1.5 billion toys a year
5LPQ TIL China was seen positively by Sudanese and Africans due to its non interference policy, only doing business. The only foreign policy advice that China gave to Sudan was “Don’t go back to war”
gDbL TIL that the origins of driving on the left side go back to Medieval England where Knights would ride their horses on the left side of the road so if they encountered an enemy their sword hand would be on the correct side - nearly all countries that drive on the left now were once English colonies
pY5DQ TIL that Minoru Yamasaki, the architect for the World Trade Center towers, never lived to see the attacks on 9/11. He died in 1986 at the at age of 73 from stomach cancer.