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TIL that there are more museums in the U.S. than Starbucks and McDonalds combined.

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D1bLr TIL there was nearly a Chernobyl size nuclear accident near Denver caused by a plutonium fire at a nuclear weapons production facility
gMn58 TIL that the Beverly Hills Hotel & Hotel Bel-Air as well as a number of high end luxury hotels are owned by sultan Hassanal Bolkiah whose country will start stoning alleged gay people and adulterers to death in a week.
VNL0 TIL Christian evangelists produced a 23 episode TV show about superhero named “Bible-Man” who used the power of God to fight villains. It was so bad, there’s a theory that the show was deliberately created to discredit Christian proselytisation.
rx7W TIL Joseph Heller, author of Catch 22, wouldn’t begin a story without envisioning both an opening and closing line.
yQeap TIL of Planned obsolescence, the practice of making a product obsolete thru various means, such as HP who designed certain inkjet printers and cartridges to shut down on an undisclosed expiration date which prevented consumers from using the ink that remained in the expired cartridge