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TIL of the Golden Arches Theory which states that no two countries that both had McDonald’s had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald’s.

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x9d5 TIL coffee milk is the official drink in the state of Rhode Island
XEw1P TIL that during the Vietnam War, America made a recording that has terrifying sounds, then played those sounds in the jungle at night.
8Bd8 TIL engineers that worked on the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” aircraft couldn’t come up with a proper fuel sealing system that could handle the thermal expansion of the airframe at extreme temperatures, so the aircraft would leak jet fuel on the runway.
6vZm TIL that when setting up the Jeopardy! challenge involving the Watson supercomputer, IBM repeatedly expressed concerns that clue writers would exploit cognitive deficiencies in order to turn the show into a sort of Turing test. A neutral third party had to be brought in to select the questions.
8aBAZ TIL that when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto, the trip took about 1 minute less than predicted or in a decade-long journey, NASA's forecast was 99.99998% accurate or the equivalent of forecasting a trip from New York to Boston & being accurate to within four-millionths of a second.