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TIL the Original Ronald McDonald was fired for being overweight

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Zrrv TIL in 2016 a Russian hacker released the World Anti-Doping Agencies records which revealed that despite past denials both Venus and Serena Williams had used and received waivers for banned substances including corticosteroids and narcotics.
b9mv9 TIL that Alexei Leonov, the first human to perform a spacewalk, was unable to re-enter his craft due to his spacesuit inflating, creating immobility in his joints. He entered the airlock after depressurising the suit to critical safety levels.
epBaE TIL while in Harvard University, Dale Maple was removed from the German Club for singing the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" and was dismissed from ROTC for praising dictatorship. During WW2, he helped German POWs to escape, was sentenced to hang and was commuted to 10 years
OoE81 TIL Laughter Gives you Better Abs than Crunches
WDvA TIL a multi-national research team has created a model of a “Living and Breathing Supercomputer” that runs on the same substance that living things use as an energy source. The “biological computer” is fast, accurate, compact, and energy efficient.