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TIL that 2014 was McDonald’s worst year in a decade

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rRlgM TIL that many of the most popular essential oils used in homes today are toxic to dogs and cats even if they are simply used in a diffuser. Symptoms of oil toxicity include muscle tremors, lethargy, vomitting, and more.
9jd6 TIL that the face on almost every cpr doll in existence is modeled after an unidentified woman who’s dead body was found in the seine river in france during the late 1880s.
YrO7 TIL two lawyers knew that Alton Logan was innocent for 26 years, but kept his innocence a secret to protect their client. When their client died, they came forward with the truth and Logan was freed.
neZaY TIL of a US Navy pilot in 1998 who flew too low against regulations, cutting a gondola's cable and killing 20 people. He and his crew were put on trial and found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide
PYOMV TIL that in 1945, a US Army Air Force B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building. The crash severed an elevator's cables, causing it to plummet 75 stories. The elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver survived the elevator fall, and holds the record for the longest elevator fall survived.