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TIL the S in Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for anything

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oBwl8 TIL McDonald`s when launched its first outlet in Moscow (USSR) in 1990, the city went mad, sold over 30000 burgers on the first day
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0dPBj TIL that The most famous Egyptian pyramids are those found at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among the largest structures ever built.
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w1jW TIL A lab technician accidentally created a burst of nuclear fission and was exposed to radiation levels 7 times above lethal limits in under a second.