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TIL McDonalds did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons

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R5RN8 TIL that critics of FDR’s New Deal called it the “Jew Deal” because they felt it was “Jewish or Communist” inspire.
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8awBX TIL that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family does not believe James Earl Ray killed him, they instead believe that the owner of the restaurant King was at, the Mafia and the United States government conspired to do it
BgpWd TIL about the Storegga Slide. In about 6200BCE, structural failures in the Norwegian continental shelf triggered submarine landslides with 3500km³ of debris, causing extreme tsunamis in the North Sea. A similar event today would be catastrophic for many coastal cities of Britain and mainland Europe.
d8lJ7 TIL San Francisco's Chinatown, formerly known as "Chinese Quarter", was created to keep the Chinese population in California segregated.