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TIL that before McDonald's switched from cooking its fries in beef tallow to vegetable oil, the fries had more saturated beef fat than their hamburgers.

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nWBnW TIL that over 30,000 U.S. service members and veterans of the post-9/11 wars have died by suicide — over four times as many as have died in combat.
wr8o TIL of an unassuming middle-aged Texas woman who dressed as a male cowboy and robbed several banks without using a weapon. She was eventually caught and served 15 years. Upon her release, “Cowboy Bob,” now 60, robbed another bank and was killed during her escape when she pulled a toy gun on police.
78RRO TIL that sufferers of Carbon Dioxide build-up will experience the follow symptoms: Breathlessness, diziness, confusion and disorientation, headaches, muscle twitching and hand flapping, panic, hyperventilation, convulsions, unconsciousness, and finally, death.
bBPQ TIL in 1986 the Red Hot Chili Peppers were budgeted $5000 by EMI Music to make a demo tape and set aside $2000 to spend on Heroine and Cocaine
6Ed87 TIL that rollercoasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson didn’t like that Americans were going to places like saloons and brothels and created the first rollercoaster on Coney Island to persuade them to go there instead.