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TIL McDonald`s when launched its first outlet in Moscow (USSR) in 1990, the city went mad, sold over 30000 burgers on the first day

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Y7mdv TIL that Point Nemo is the most remote place on Earth, with its coordinates being 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W, and it’s known as the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility; it’s located approximately 1,450 nautical miles from the nearest land
EKpX TIL that John Lennon delighted in mocking his manager, Epstein, for his homosexuality and for the fact that he was Jewish.
glgL TIL that the fake phone number from “Bruce Almighty”, was actually called by many people who asked “are you God?”. One man with the number was a priest, who would reply “No, but I can take a message”.
jNEZa TIL that the CIA parachuted hundreds of people into North Korea throughout the 1950s to start resistance networks and, despite never hearing from most of them again, continued to parachute more in until an inquiry in the 1970s questioned the morality of such an initiative.
KYMaG TIL: Douglas MacArthur wanted to use atomic bombs to contain China and ultimately win the Korean War.