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TIL that McDonald’s restaurants on Canada’s east coast have a seasonal ‘McLobster’ sandwich.

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ADWRg TIL that Niki Lauda asked his fellow drivers in 1976 to boycott the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring due to safety concerns even after he was the fastest on the track. Fellow drivers declined and Lauda suffered a crash in the second lap which left him with half face and scalp burned.
N7Dob TIL the Iroquois Confederacy, founded by the Great Peacemaker in 1142, is the oldest living participatory democracy on earth. The US constitution was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy.
mxnKp TIL between 33K and 55K Canadians fought in the American Civil War. 29 were awarded Medals of Honor, one was a noted Union Spy, and one was a Union Army officer who formed and led the detachment that captured and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln.
Vnm0 TIL the inventor of the ATM proposed a 6 digit bank PIN but switched it to 4 digits because it was the longest string of numbers that his wife could remember.
kJLOE TIL Jimmy Carter holds the record for most presidential pardons, pardoning over 200,000 Vietnam War draft dodgers. Least presidential pardons belongs to William Henry Harrison with 0.