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

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aw4g0 TIL the brilliant chess Master, Jose Raul Capablanca, first learned what Chess was by watching his father play his friend. After two games, he understood how the pieces move and the objective. For the third game, he challenged his father and won. He was only four years old.
6WXY TIL that for $100,000 you can have your dog cloned by a company called My Friend Again
LjnP TIL The earliest-born person to be photographed was Conrad Heyer. Born in 1749, he crossed the Delaware River with George Washington during the American Revolution.
M6dW TIL the words “For Our Princess” are engraved inside every Microsoft Zune HD as a tribute to a team member who passed away during its development.
rRwpe TIL it is estimated that approximately 70% of people at some point in their life will experience 'Imposter Syndrome', where they don't believe that they deserve their success and are worried about being found out as a 'fraud'.