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TIL a man built a restaurant in Northern Iraq called MaDonal’s after McDonald’s turned denied his request. The restaurant serves items such as “Big Macks,” and serves free food to U.S. forces, and thus has been threatened by suicide bombers, turning the man into a local celebrity.

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0d4vR TIL that in the 19th century a portuguese serial killer's head was preserved in a jar after his execution for scientific purposes.
vPmlr TIL a young Vietnamese woman named Phan Thi Mao was kidnapped and repeatedly abused by US soldiers in 1966, only one of the men decided to report the situation, all of the responsible people were convicted but eventually acquitted, this event later became known as the “incident on Hill 192”
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