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TIL that the same company that made the Rugrats and Wild Thornberrys (Klasky Csupo) were hired by the McDonald’s Co. to make a 6 episode animated series called “The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald”

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R57pj TIL of East Asian age reckoning. An age counting system common in China Korea Japan and Vietnam. People are considered to be one the day they are born and on New Years Day a year is added. This creates the scenario where children born on December 31 become two-year-olds the very next day.
jN9kM TIL that the .io domain belongs to the British Indian Ocean Territories that the British took over after a shady Cold War deal. They make millions of profits on the domain without sharing any of it with the Chagossian people, the inhabitants of the territories.
YLoB TIL that on the day Deepwater Horizon exploded, BP officials had gathered on the platform to celebrate 7 years without an injury or accident
EPvx TIL Nelson Mandela attended Tupac Shakurs ash scattering service in 2006.
Ypv6W TIL Woody Harrelson's father was a hitman convicted of murdering a judge.