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TIL McDonald’s purchases approximately 75% of all the sesame seed crop grown in Mexico

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ajQL TIL the final words Walt Disney ever wrote were “Kurt Russell.” No one knows why.
8aLab TIL Hannelore Kohl, wife of the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (1982-1998), was gang-raped and thrown out a first-floor window by Soviet soldiers as a 12 year old in 1945. She committed suicide in 2001, after a long battle with mental problems most likely caused by these suppressed traumas.
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YpO4A TIL that half of the families who founded the city of Los Angeles in 1781 were of African descent.