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TIL Coca-Cola syrup is delivered to McDonald's in stainless steel tanks that ensure its freshness, creating what many believe is the best Coca-Cola available. All other restaurants receive the syrup in plastic bags.

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W7xlA TIL in 2019, a hand-drawn cel depicting the twin towers from the classic Simpsons episode “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson”, was given to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, in what the curator termed a "hilarious and tender" donation.
b9XV4 TIL: Verizon will hang up on you (and refuse to communicate) if you inform them that you are recording the phone call. Even though they require you to let them record you.
J1nLm TIL the belief that the two disasters involving the De Havilland Comet were caused by square passenger windows is a myth. The two planes involved actually used rectangular windows with rounded edges; and the "square windows" is actually the square cut-out for the ADF Antenna above the cockpit.
WkN18 TIL During the Beijing Olympics, a 9-year-old girl who sang a patriotic song at the opening ceremony, was revealed to be a fake lip-syncing. The real singer was a 7-year-old girl who was kept backstage, because she was considered not good looking enough and that might’ve damaged China’s image.
DJXp TIL that that ground has tides. The pull of the Moon’s gravity raises the ground up by nearly 40 cm over the course of 12 hours.