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TIL McDonald’s is no longer the global leader in fast food chains. It’s Subway.

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EOeW TIL Madagascar was first settled by people from Borneo (which is over 4000 miles away), not Africa (250 miles away)
9wVEM TIL despite the overall lack of popularity of soccer in the USA, the 1994 World Cup hosted by the United States was the most financially successful World Cup in history.
OGEEY TIL Cerveza Chango (Chango Beer) is a fictional beer brand that shows up in the movies Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn and Sin City all directed by Robert Rodriguez.
wJV6 TIL of the Sonderkommando photographs - four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 by an inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
R7Ng9 TIL The Inuit people of northern Greenland had many metal knives and tools despite having no mines or smelting: they used enormous iron meteorites for their metal which American explorer Robert E. Peary ultimately stole.