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TIL in 1974 sales from McDonald's Shamrock Shake help fund the building the first Ronald McDonald House, which keeps families closer to their children needing hospital visits.

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wL1Q6 TIL The battleship Imperator Aleksandr III was built by Imperial Russia, taken by Provisional Russia, given to Germany, given to Britain, given to White Russians, and then sold for scrap by the French. The ship guns were then sold to the Finns, stolen by Nazis, and returned to Russia after WW2.
8aXb TIL that Howard Hughes endowed $156 million to a gas-station owner for finding him on the side of the road and giving him a ride to Las Vegas.
9vKr TIL 23,000 North Koreans have defected to the South, and only 2 South Koreans have defected to the North.
6E9QZ TIL the Eric Clapton song "Tears in Heaven" was written for Clapton's four-year-old son who fell from a window of a 53rd-floor New York apartment in 1991. He doesn't sing it live because he doesn't feel the loss anymore and he doesn't want those feelings to come back.
0dkKj TIL that one of the highest parts of Earth's atmosphere between 500 and 1000km - Thermopause - does have the widest range of temperatures - between absolute zero and 1000'C