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TIL McDonald's introduced its drive-thru service due to the military in Fort Huachuca, AZ not being able to be seen in public with their uniforms on. It made no sense to change into regular clothes just to go to McDonald’s so the manager of the restaurant came up this solution.

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9r8B TIL in 2005 Leonard Cohen sued his long-time manager for defrauding him of more than $US5 million, leaving him with just $150,000 from his 30-year career. The theft of almost all of his fortune forced Cohen to start touring again for the first time in 15 years at the age of 74.
R75p1 TIL that BMW ran an advertisement on April Fools Day 2015 that read "April Fool's Day Special - Come with any old car and receive a brand new BMW". One woman turned up with her old Nissan and got a brand new BMW with the number plate "NOF00L"
5VK89 TIL about Lucin (also known as Umbria Junction), a ghost town in Utah. Abandoned in 1936 by its original occupants, the community was resettled by 4 retired railroad workers and their families from 1937 until 1972, and again by 4 owner-residents in the 1990s.
rRWl0 TIL that in one of the most unusual instances of "twin films" (movies released around the same time, about the same subject) both Kalifornia (1993) and Natural Born Killers (1994) were based on spree killer Charles Starkweather AND starred Juliette Lewis in the role of the killer's girlfriend.
rN6Z0 TIL Ice-T made up a gang to keep real gang members off his back in high school. “We actually created a fake gang. We told people we were part of the Hillside Crips. We had them thinking there was hundreds of us. I never had any trouble.”