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TIL McDonald's French Fry in the USA has 14 ingredients, in the UK (and the rest of Europe) it has 4 ingredients

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4kvXg TIL in 1964, when Kia transitioned from making bicycles to cars, they changed their logo. The Kia logo, for 22 years, looked like an upsidedown "Q".
vPbx TIL in 1848 an iron rod exploded through the skull of a railroad foreman and landed 80 feet away. He was speaking and walking minutes later. The doctor didn’t believe him until a “teacupful of the brain” fell on the floor. He died 12 years later, after having portraits made of him holding the rod
wBk1 TIL there are a pair of craniopagus conjoined twins whose brains are so intertwined, they share all of their senses. They see what each other sees, taste what each other tastes, feel what each other feels.
wVrW TIL the first ever in-flight radio transmission was, “Roy, come and get this goddamn cat”
QNgxM TIL: A blue whale's heart beats only 8 to 10 times per minute and circulates 5300 litres or 9326 pints of blood around the whale's body