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TIL the Original Ronald McDonald was fired for being overweight

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JYMGj TIL The expiration date on bottled water is for the bottle, not for the water
0PXy TIL In WWII, a Polish soldier volunteered to be thrown in Auschwitz and escape to prove to the Allies that the Holocaust was real.
mZpE TIL that France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else
E1aKV TIL : The World population was about 300 million at the time of Jesus. A thousand years later it was about 310 million.
a88Ly TIL that the United States has offered to purchase Greenland from Denmark twice, once in 1946 and again in 2019 due to its strategic location in the Arctic, the U.S. also occupied the island during WW2 from 1940-45 after the fall of Denmark and constructed Thule Air Base.