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TIL There are more payday loan stores in the US than McDonald’s and Taco Bells combined.

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N7mJP TIL that France built a fake Paris in WWI to confuse german bombers, which was located North of Real Paris
nevxb TIL there are three types of twilight dependent on how far below the horizon the sun is: civil, nautical and astronomical.
wogP1 TIL: 1995 Daegu gas explosion in S.Korea, over 100 people were launched into the air, rained down and crushed by debris. First responders described flattened, disfigured bodies, some stretched to nearly double their original size from the impact. The disaster remains relatively unknown today.
BrRRW TIL that Norman Borlaug saved more than a billion lives with a "miracle wheat" that averted mass starvation, becoming 1 of only 5 people to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal. He said, "Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world."
R7JjQ TIL twins Grace and Virginia Kennedy (b. 1970) were often left alone with their German speaking grandmother as children and as a result developed their own secret language. They used it til they were about 8 when they were forbidden to by their father. They called each other "Poto" and "Cabengo".