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TIL McDonald's was fined $4 million in 1999 for not reporting 400+ injuries of children using Big Mac Climber jungle gyms, where children climbed up a tube from the ground and played between two giant metal hamburger buns. The last Big Mac Climbers were removed from McDonald's playgrounds in 1997.

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worv7 TIL The Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu has only one hotel- the 16 room Vaiaku Langi Hotel near the airport on Funafuti
5Yv6k TIL about Liam Ashley a 17 year old boy from New Zealand who had criminal charges pressed against him by his parents for using their car without permission. His parents denied bail so he would be sent to prison. While being transported in a prison van, He was attacked by a offender and killed.
Z8jaR TIL readers of Melanie Rawn's Exiles series have been waiting 20 years for the final book.
KOA0B TIL the original Dungeons & Dragons contained references to "hobbits" but those were removed when J.R.R. Tolkien's estate complained that he held the copyright to the creatures. They were later renamed "halflings" in D&D.
d8lkd TIL in 2015 more Americans reported being of German ancestry than being black.