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TIL To visit every child in the world, Santa Claus would need to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound

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a8Yp0 TIL at the Mcdonald's Global Headquarters in Chicago, IL, they have a restaurant with menu items from all over the world that you can try...and a "Hamburger University"
g7XL TIL that Dolly Parton thinks it is so important that every child has books to read that she started a foundation that will mail children a free age-appropriate book every month from birth to their 5th birthday
pZRA TIL that Jeffery Dahmer’s father was seconds away from opening a metal box that contained a head and penis of one of Jeff’s victims, but was convinced by his son that the box contained only pornography.
pY4OG TIL of Sidney Korshak, a lawyer who was the Chicago Mafia’s main man in Los Angeles. Korshak went to his death, without so much as a criminal indictment against him, let alone a conviction.
6EePW TIL in 1998 an 8 year old boy was electrocuted using a bathroom hand dryer at Pizza Hut in Mississippi. The hand dryer had no ground wire and multiple customers had previously complained about being shocked.