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TIL Mcdonalds Fries Have Beef Flavoring!

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YpwNG TIL about Joe Simpson, who broke his leg descending a mountain and was lowered off the mountain by his climbing partner Simon Yates. He ends up falling off a cliff and into a crevasse after Simon is forced to cut the rope. He survives and crawls 8 miles to safety. Better story in link.
V8km TIL Classical music is effective at dispersing loitering teens from retail and transportation hubs
wm6J TIL that foxes were domesticated in the USSR and Russia using a 45 year breeding process
DQNp TIL 2/3 of all illiterate adults are female.
OGnQX TIL the Swiss Guard who guards the Pope must take a vow of celibacy, pass Swiss Army basic training and several other things. They had had a heroic last stand where they were massacred defending Rome in 1527 and there are only 135 of them at one time.