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TIL McDonalds has closed down in six countries (Bermuda, Barbados, Bolivia, Jamaica, Iceland and Montenegro)

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GAg77 TIL: there are ~1500 shipwrecks in Lake Michigan and over 6000 in the Great Lakes combined.
worGo TIL that the extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels
omJA TIL In 2006 a man burned himself alive in opposition to the war in Iraq. It was never reported on major networks.
NXJvQ TIL at the 1964 NHRA drag racing meet at Riverside, CA Danny Ongais broke an axle at the start line of the semi-final round of Top Gas Eliminator. His opponent red-lighted, so Ongais pushed his car the full quarter mile to win. His elapsed time was 1-minute 35-seconds with a trap speed of 3.5 mph.
N77a1 TIL that Freddie Mercury wrote the instrumental parts of Bohemian Rhapsody in "blocks" on a phone book and not on real music sheets