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TIL that the Happy Meal was invented by the wife of a McDonald's franchisee in Guatemala, calling it "Ronald's Menu"

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5YYVR TIL that in 1966, when asked by a Senate subcommittee member about the dangers of LSD, Timothy Leary stated: “Sir, the motor car is dangerous if used improperly…Human stupidity and ignorance is the only danger human beings face in this world.” The Senator he was replying to was Ted Kennedy.
R5rrw TIL that in the 1880s, the Cape Town-Port Elizabeth railway service formally employed a baboon as an assistant railway signalman for 9 years. He was paid 20 cents per day and half a bottle of beer per week.
J1Kdv TIL that there was a cold war operation that gathered official documents from trash bins, because they were frequently used as tissue paper in the tissue-paper-less east germany
Rr1w TIL that Iceland has one of the largest gun ownership rates in the world, and yet has one of the lowest crime rates in the world
Y7jr7 TIL in 1975, the USSR planned an invasion of Chile to rescue Luis Corvalán