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TIL that over 2500 left-handed people die every year from using equipment meant for right-handed people

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KOgJR TIL that one McDonalds in Sedona, Arizona, has blue arches instead of yellow, to prevent distraction from the surrounding natural scenery.
mxVMp TIL Werner Herzog once promised fellow documentary maker Errol Morris that he would eat his shoe if Morris ever finished his movie on pet cemeteries, because he found Morris to be incapable of ever finishing his projects. In 1978 Morris finished his film, and Herzog publicly cooked and ate his shoe.
nAWG TIL Maj. Gen. Doug Pearson became the only “space ace” when he shot down a satellite orbiting at 345 miles while piloting an F-15 on Sept. 13, 1985.
loPvG TIL The Paris Peace talks involving North and South Korea back in 1968 were stalled because neither country could agree on the shape of the negotiating table.
9XeM TIL the KGB spy assigned to George Orwell would later lose his faith in Communism, after reading Orwell’s books