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TIL McDonald’s in 2008 saved $278,850,000 by removing one of the two slices of cheese from the McDouble/Double cheeseburger.

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6geZ TIL a drug 400-6000 times stronger than morphine was the gas used in the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002
4Br5 TIL that Iceland was involved in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. They sent two troops.
Z0rQ TIL that in Texas some convicts are offered decades long prison sentences or forced book club meetings while on parole
woGbP TIL In Cheongju, South Korea, a gang of thieves rented a hotel and spent a month digging a secret tunnel to gain access to a nearby oil pipeline in order to siphon it. They've managed to dug 10 meters deep and reached the pipeline, but a police raid caught them before they could steal any oil.
VMg7B TIL why the Apollo 11 moon landing footage is so grainy. There was a pristine version at NASA for years, but around 1980 due to a data tape shortage they reused the tape for something else.