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TIL McDonalds opens a new resturant every 14.5 hours

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awBoA TIL 9/11 survivor George Mironis visits FDNY Ladder Company 10 House, across from the memorial, once a week and leaves a candle in a glass jar just outside the firehouse. He does this to honor a firefighter he passed in the North Tower stairwell on 9/11 who did not survive.
8D9X TIL A group of wild bunnies is called a fluffle.
VBOV8 TIL 95% of Londoners live within 400m of a bus stop
QJa9k TIL in 1861, the King of Siam offered a pair of elephants as a gift to America "to be let loose to increase and multiply in the continent of America". Lincoln sent a letter declining the gift, as elephants would be useless in Industrial America, and they likely would not survive anyway.
vPwvK TIL that the CIA tried to bribe Egypt’s president Abdelnasser to join a proposed ME defence org but he took the bribe ($3 Million) then refused to join.