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TIL McDonald's in India don't serve hamburgers, or any beef and pork products.

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4XrJw TIL Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg suffered from a severe fear of the number 13. He predicted correctly that he would die when he was 76, because 7+6=13. He did die on July 13th, 13 minutes before midnight
VM1kG TIL David Bowie, fuelled by an "astronomic" cocaine habit and subsisting on a diet of peppers and milk, spent much of 1975–76 "in a state of psychic terror."
NXPm6 TIL: Tommy Thompson was an American treasure hunter who successfully found millions of dollars worth of gold coins from the SS Central America. However, he went on the run due to refusing to pay off his debts and is now in jail as he claims to have memory loss of where he hid 500 gold coins.
RW81 TIL the White House grounds were open to the public until 1890, when the first lady ordered the grounds closed because she was creeped out by tourists fussing over her baby.
l7RP5 TIL a bunch of Mexican VW car dealership owners sent a Volkswagen Beetle to Pope John Paul II