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TIL that the McDonald's CEO eats McDonald's twice a day, 5 days a week.

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bwZ TIL that in 1995 St. Jude’s Hospital got an anonymous letter containing the $1mil Monopoly piece from the McDonalds promotion game. It was mailed by the Chief of Security, at the company that organized the promotion, after major fraud was uncovered within the company.
Oo8LX TIL of the Lead-Crime hypothesis which states there is a proposed link between childhood exposure to lead and increases in violent crime later in life. The hypothesis argues that the removal of lead additives from motor fuel and the decline in lead exposure explains the reduction in crime after 1990
xmx1 TIL the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail in one season was 67 years old at the time.
DKbV TIL ATM PINs were originally intended to have six digits, but have four because the inventor’s wife said she could only remember that many.
dDRnK TIL when there's less solar radiation, temperatures on Earth go up. This is because there's less solar magnetic shielding against cosmic rays, so radioactive carbon-14 in the atmosphere goes up. Evidence of this is trees contained more carbon-14 during the last Medieval Warm Period.