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TIL There are more museum in the US than McDonalds and Starbucks locations combined: 35k vs 14k+16k

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8mPV TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about 4 crewman who are lost at sea and turned to eating the cabin boy named Richard Parker, 46 years later, an English Yacht sank and the remaining 4 survivors in a life boat turned to eating the Cabin Boy after he fell ill, also named Richard Parker
P1KLL TIL that the sound of the opening riff of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits was created by accident, and they were never able to exactly recreate it again.
7GRM TIL Robin Williams took his video-game-loving son’s advice when deciding to name his daughter Zelda.
rNKvd TIL you can get appendix stones, calcified deposits similar to bladder or kidney stones. They’re called appendicoliths.
p8MX8 TIL of the Navratil twins, whose father had kidnapped them after separating from his wife. He tried to move them to America on the Titanic, but died when the ship sank. The twins were rescued and re-united with their mother after she saw a newspaper picture of them.