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TIL that the Japanese founder of McDonald’s Japan authored “The Jewish Way of Doing Business”. The book was an immediate success and went on to sell over a million copies.

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X6lR TIL-The Declaration of Independence spent World War II in Fort Knox placed in a box and sealed with lead.
wLWL8 TIL of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash, where the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane into a mountainside after locking the captain out of the cockpit. The co-pilot had hidden the fact his doctor had been treating him for suicidal tendencies and declared him "unfit to work". 150 people died.
J4Kk TIL that there’s an edition of Windows called “Windows XP™ for Submarines”, and it’s run on the United Kingdom’s nuclear missile submarines
a1nJ TIL when Dennis Hopper’s 7-year-old son asked him why he played King Koopa in “Super Mario Brothers,” Dennis told him “So you can have shoes.” The son replied, “I don’t need shoes.”
KOBj6 TIL that eating too much spinach can lead to an excessive build-up of gas, bloating, and cramps. The culprit is the fact that spinach is high in fiber and has lots of oxalate, which can be harmful in large amounts.