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TIL the Quarter Pounder was discontinued in McDonalds Japan in 2017

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Oog4g TIL A prison in Washington has created a program called Cuddly Catz,where prisoners are given a cat,which would otherwise probably be euthanized,to care for.
XEvp6 TIL of Arek Hersh, a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust as a child. At the age of 14, he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was tattooed with the number B7608 and had his only photographs of his family ripped away from him. The Holocaust killed 81 members of his family. Only his sister survived.
X09Y8 TIL that Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon, loved to collect bugs as a child. Other children would call him “Mr. Bug,” and as a child he wanted to become an entomologist. This childhood pastime went on to inspire aspects of Pokémon.
jNvgE TIL about "The Lion House" in Gorongosa, Mozambique. When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over. Gorongosa became a national park in 1960.
b9aw7 TIL the Senkwekwe Center in Congo is the world’s only facility specifically created to care for orphaned mountain gorillas. Named after a family of gorillas that were brutally murdered in 2007, it is the only place in the world where mountain gorillas have been documented to thrive in captivity.