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TIL in 1975, Mcdonalds opened their first drive thru to allow soldiers stationed at Fort Huachuca to order food. At the time, soldiers weren’t allowed to leave their vehicle while in uniform, when off base.

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4bp6 TIL that four-year-old children on welfare in the United States have been exposed to an average of 30 million fewer words than children of higher income families.
E1Bmo TIL: There is a Victorian time capsule under Cleopatra's Needle in London that contains photographs of the 12 best looking women in England
b6pN0 TIL Adam Smith didn't invent free market capitalism, the French Physiocrats did
8Jg8 TIL that 900 workers have died in their mission to build the infrastructure for 2022 UEFA World Cup in Qatar. If the deathrate continue to be as high, at least 4000 workers will die before the actual event begins.
AN1GB TIL there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way-around 3 trillion trees compared to 100-400 billion stars.