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TIL Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'

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Br59k TIL Lewis Keseburg, one of the survivors of the Donner Party that practiced cannibalism, started a brewery, a hotel, and a restaurant after his rescue.
OGkKY TIL Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, died from a cherry overdose. On July 4, 1850, Taylor reportedly consumed copious amounts of cherries and iced milk causing him to die of cholera morbus.
XEXVQ TIL in September 1940, British pilot Ray Holmes saved Buckingham Palace from being hit by German bombing, when he used his Hawker Hurricane to destroy a Dornier Do 17 bomber over London by ramming but at the loss of his own aircraft (and almost his own life)
Y7MGA TIL that Turtle shells are part of their anatomy, and not some empty space where they retract
6ElYJ TIL that there is a McDonald’s located in an 19th century mansion in New York. McDonald’s originally planned to destroy the house, but historians protested and a compromise was made.