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TIL: China has a National Pole Dancing Team

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eP75 TIL that the most profitable item on McDonald’s menu is its fountain drink. It costs between 13 and 18 cents to produce a drink. Therefore, when you buy a fountain drink for $1.00, they are gaining more than 80% profit per fountain drink.
dDKv9 TIL the top 10% of drinkers in America consume an average of 74 drinks per week. About 30% of Americans never drink at all and another 30% only drink on special occasions, at most once every couple of weeks.
VM0Gm TIL in 1830 George Wilson was convicted of robbing a postal carrier and sentenced to hang. He was pardoned by Andrew Jackson. He refused the pardon. The Supreme Court ruled that a pardon could not be forced on him. So they hanged him.
MyKa TIL that when Boris Yeltsin visited the US in 1989, seeing an ordinary Houston supermarket caused him to rethink his “Bolshevik consciousness” and leave the Communist party.
7rnNL TIL of Patricia Stallings who allegedly poisoned her son with antifreeze and the child died. She had another baby in prison that went to Foster care. The baby had identical symptoms of poisoning however it was determined that both children actually had a genetic disorder. She was later exonerated.