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TIL McDonald's mascot Ronald McDonald is known as "Donald McDonald" in Japan due to the Japanese language lacking a proper "R" sound

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ywbl TIL: Scientists have defined ‘Zealandia’ as the world’s 8th continent, 94 per cent of which is below the Pacific Ocean.
KOyMG TIL Collapse of Aztec society was linked to an outbreak of salmonella after the Spanish conquest
6E0RQ TIL TV executive Fred Silverman got the inspiration for Scooby-Doo's name from Frank Sinatra's hit song "Strangers In The Night." The syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo" can be heard at the end of the song. Silverman used Sinatra's improvisation to help name the cartoon canine.
b9OZ7 TIL that the "General Sherman" tree in the Giant Forest is approximately 2200 years old. It would have been a little sapling 200 years before Jesus walked the earth
loRD7 TIL Cats have genetic similarities to humans and are an excellent model to study human infectious diseases.