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TIL McDonald’s is set to have fewer locations next year for first time ever

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J11Nv TIL that two other people were planned to be assassinated the night Abraham Lincoln was. One of them was Lincoln's Vice President Andrew Johnson. The man assigned to kill him instead got drunk instead and couldn't work up the nerve to do it.
xRM5 TIL Eazy-E, former rapper and N.W.A member was not buried in a suit and tie, but instead a flannel shirt, jeans and a Compton cap, reminiscent of what he wore
yoDe TIL Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station
b6Dka TIL that José Feliciano, writer and performer of Christmas hit "Feliz Navidad", was born blind
R7oO7 TIL Saudi Arabia’s royal family’s net worth of $1.4 trillion, makes the family roughly 16 times as wealthy the British royal family, which has a net worth of $88 billion.