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TIL a Catholic Priest wanted by the communists lived inside the US embassy in Soviet Hungary for 15 years.

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7pVx TIL- the old lady in the “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case” suffered severe 3rd degree burns on 6% of her body and needed skin grafts. The media blew it up to favor tort reform and the settlement in the case was the calculation of coffee sales McDonalds made in two days.
npZ7 TIL if you buy a Toshiba laptop and it breaks, UPS will send you a return-shipping box, repair the laptop and ship the laptop back to you. Everyone who handles your laptop works for UPS, not Toshiba.
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