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TIL There is only one McDonald’s restaurant in Cuba, and it’s in Guantanamo Bay.

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VMbwB TIL that a non-Indigenous company holds worldwide exclusive rights to use the Australian Aboriginal flag on clothing.
78nWO TIL people have sustained severe injuries that are normally only seen in fighter pilots due to participating in the merry-go-round of death internet challenge because of the high g-forces created as people ride a playground merry-go-round that is spun by the rear wheel of a motorcycle or moped.
kOBJ4 TIL that 4 divers literally exploded when a member of the boat crew accidentally opened the outer hatch of their decompression chamber. The men went from 305ft. down to sea level instantaneously.
YWOd TIL in 1848, to begin construction on the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, engineers needed to secure a line across the 800-foot chasm. The lead engineer held a kite-flying contest and eventually paid a local boy $5 for securing the first line over the river
G6PE TIL in 2012 six LCD screen manufacturers were discovered to have colluded in selling over $70 billion price-fixed screens.