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TIL McDonald's initially was a barbeque restaurant when it first opened. They had lots of competition as a barbeque shop and dealt with tight profit margins which caused them to close for a few months. They then reopened as a burger restaurant.

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wXb8 TIL That the average person in Palm Springs CA uses 736 Gallons of water a day…. The US average is about 100
4XkKR When you think about animal migration, what comes to mind? Probably birds in flight or wildebeests moving across the Serengeti. Yet the largest migration on the planet is harder to see—and it happens every day. Ocean technologist and submersible pilot Dr. Erika Montague explains how.
JYOp4 TIL that the CIA parachuted hundreds of people into North Korea throughout the 1950s to start resistance networks and, despite never hearing from most of them again, continued to parachute more in until an inquiry in the 1970s questioned the morality of such an initiative.
AB77 TIL hacker Samy Kamkar created a Myspace virus, which made anyone that looked at his profile automatically become his Myspace friend. It spread at a rate of 1000 accounts becoming his friend every second, resulting in over 1 million friends. Samy was raided by the Secret Service and got probation.
p8A6Q TIL after a student failed the math portion of Minnesota’s Basic Standards Tests her father demanded to see the exam, threatening to sue for it. A series of scoring errors were found meaning math scores for 45,739 Minnesota students were wrong and 7,935 students who were told they failed had passed.