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TIL McDonalds is the biggest toy distributor in the world

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5vjp TIL that 60’s counterculture singer Phil Ochs would go on paranoid drunken rants about the FBI watching him. After hanging himself in his sister’s home it was revealed that the FBI had a 500 page file on him.
GAxA1 TIL Hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs.
M7wW0 TIL that the first President of Guyana was the first ethnically Chinese person to be elected as head of state in a non-Asian country.
GYr7g TIL the Emperor Tamarin got its name for its resemblance to German emperor Wilhelm II
gMZ8W TIL Nebraska, the only triply landlocked state in the US, has a navy. The position of Nebraska admiral has been awarded as a joke for decades, with admirals including Big Bird and David Letterman.