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TIL Smoke Inhalation causes most house fire deaths
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TIL in the 1700s oysters were so overly abundant and popular in New York City that the discarded shells were repurposed into mortar paste to aid NY’s building boom. Trinity Church is an example of a building built with oyster-shells.
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TIL The when the first McDonald's opened in Moscow in 1990, hours long lines of thousands of people turned out for the grand opening and the long lines persisted into at least 1992.
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TIL that Pink Floyd’s album ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ has been on the billboard top 200 for 894 weeks, which is over 17 years long.
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TIL Xu Xiaodong a Chinese MMA who is known for taking down fake martial artists gained fame online. There was significant backlash on social media, banned from organising tournaments, sued and lowered social credit rating. Still win a fight after travel 36hours to fight and wear a clown makeup.
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TIL that the sample used for Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” was from a song called “The Edge” written by David McCallum AKA Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard from NCIS.