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TIL-Redbox was originally a concept developed within the McDonalds Corporation to drive traffic and deliver additional convenience to McDonalds customers.

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OGnl6 TIL: Shakespeare's parents were illiterate. It’s quite likely that John and Mary Shakespeare never learned to read or write, John was known to sign his name with an X.
PY1EE TIL "the Blight" - a plague that destroyed all plant life in the movie Interstellar - was somewhat based on Raoultella planticola bacterium which in the 1990s was genetically modified to destroy plants and had potential to cause mass extinction
5YOKB TIL that when Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States he made 2 requests: to visit Disneyland and meet John Wayne
awYB9 TIL Australian $50 note typo spelling mistake printed 46 million times.
GAWWg TIL about Deaf lifeguard Leroy Colombo, who overcame childhood paralysis through swimming and saved a record-breaking 900+ lives during his career. His swimming talent and use of sight rather than sound to identify drowning swimmers allowed him to save people other lifeguards would have missed.