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TIL the Original Ronald McDonald was fired for being overweight

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695P8 TIL Martin-Baker, a manufacturer of airplane ejection systems and seats, has a club for everyone who uses their seats to eject and survives
OYAR TIL that stairs in medieval times wound in a clockwise direction to place attacking swordsmen (often right-handed) at a disadvantage.
W7Zv8 TIL in 2006 Iran banned sale of The Economist magazine because it published a map labelling the Persian Gulf simply as Gulf
WJnN TIL In 1524 a statue of Virgin Mary was charged as being a witch and was sent to a trial by water, when the statue floated they denounced it as a witch and burnt it.
XZjj TIL Harrison Ford declined the lead role of Benjamin Martin in The Patriot, feeling the script had boiled the Revolutionary War down to a “one-man’s-revenge” melodrama.