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TIL A man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy’s in 2005.

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dD7Oj TIL about Operation Cottage intended to seize the last enemy stronghold on North American soil from Japanese occupiers in 1943. By the time the island was declared secure, over 300 Allied soldiers lay dead or wounded. There were none Japanese casualties, they abandoned the island 3 weeks prior.
6EEoQ TIL in the Philippines, legally registering property takes 168 procedures, 53 agencies and a waiting list of 13 to 25 years.
W7ANA TIL that during the 2011 Joplin, Missouri Tornado, the 200MPH+ winds were able to rip topsoil from the ground and disperse the necrotizing Mucorales fungus. Five deaths and thirteen infections were attributed to necrotizing cutaneous mucormycosis as a result, weeks after the tornado struck Joplin.
gr9d9 TIL: That Muhammad Ali had Irish ancestry and visited the country on a number of occasions. In 2009, he took time out to visit Ennis in County Clare, the home town of his ancestor Abe Grady whereupon he was also made first honorary freeman of the town.
kkrm TIL when Peter the Great found his wife had a lover he had the man beheaded, then forced her to keep her lover’s head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom which stood in Catherine’s bedroom till Peter’s death.