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TIL McDonald’s takes drive-thru orders across the country from a centralized call center in California.

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D1ORj TIL rats prefer jazz to classical music, when on drugs
jXDp TIL that Mormonism founder Joseph Smith along with his following Brigham Young believed that Moon as well as Sun is inhabited by Men and Women who lived as long as 1000 years with men all being 6 feet tall dressed uniformly like Quakers.
vPDo4 TIL The chances of survival in gladiatorial games were higher than originally thought. In fact, only 1 in 9 fights ended in death.
pYKNb TIL that execution by electric chair, first tested on calves and a horse, was so badly botched on its first human in 1890 that a second 2,000‑volt jolt reportedly set him on fire. The generator’s supplier said “They would have done better using an axe,” and the NYT called it “Far worse than hanging.
MebE8 TIL that AK-47 stands for Avtomat Kalashnikova, named after Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who designed the accepted version of the weapon in 1947.