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TIL that McDonald's is called Macca's in Australia. The nickname became so popular, they've registered it and in 2013 they even changed the signage.

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aLZ0 TIL Marines taught Sergeant Reckless, a horse who held official rank in the United States military, battlefield survival skills such as how not to become entangled in barbed wire and to lie down when under fire. She learned to run for a bunker upon hearing the cry, “incoming!”
0w8Rp TIL that Franklin Roosevelt probably didn't have polio. His symptoms were more consistent with an autoimmune disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.
wLM4o TIL that Vikings traveled with their cats and gave cats as wedding gifts
Yp5wP TIL that the term "Great Depression" was first coined in the 1870's during an economic crisis known as the Panic of 1873.
e7xn TIL when a German hacker stole the source code for Half Life 2, Gabe Newell tricked him in to thinking Valve wanted to hire him as an “in-house security auditor”. He was given plane tickets to the USA and was to be arrested on arrival by the FBI