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TIL: There are more payday lenders in the US than there are McDonalds

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YneW TIL only 2 Americans currently play for the Boston Bruins
wYk6 TIL the vertical smoke lines you see in nuclear explosions are caused by smoke rockets and not the explosion itself
5vrp TIL that pendulums behave inexplicably different during solar eclipses, sometimes rotating up to 13 degrees in a span of 14 minutes (as opposed to the usual rate of 3.75 degrees per 15 minutes).