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TIL The State of Wyoming has only 2 escalators

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VaLm TIL of the Golden Arches Theory which states that no two countries that both had McDonald’s had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald’s.
aXvo TIL that Many Koreans believe that if you leave a fan on over night you will die. Fans are sold with timers so you don’t accidentally die.
vPPZ7 TIL that Mount Everest was named under the surname of George Everest, who has nothing to do with its discovery.
vnQR TIL Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock’s capture. There was no way out and anyone who died within the chamber would have to be embalmed and cemented into the floor.
L4JP TIL that in 1955 for every 100,000 US citizens there was 340 psychiatric hospital beds. In 2005 that number had diminished to 17 per 100,000.