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til in 2017 McDonald forced the two locations that were still selling McPizza to take them off the menu

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M7Qm0 TIL about bank robber and kidnapper Vassilis Palaiokostas who is known as the "Greek Robin Hood" for giving away most of his stolen millions to the poor. He escaped by helicopter from the same maximum security prison twice while serving a 25 year sentence and remains at large despite a €1m bounty.
X0wWk TIL of Josephoartigasia monesi, the largest rodent ever found. It lived 4 to 2 million years ago.
B7Pd TIL that the Rwandan Genocide lasted only 100 days. In those 100 days, Hutus killed anywhere between half a million to a million Tutsi civilians.
4k09b TIL a film in 1997 with a budget of $15 million only made $309 because it only played in 2 movie theaters before being pulled.
KODPB TIL that since Milton Hershey didn't have any children he and his wife opened an orphanage school and when he died, he left his entire fortune and the ownership of Hershey Chocolate Company in a trust for the children in the school. Still today 70% of the company is owned by Milton Hershey School.