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TIL Disney quietly cut ties with McDonalds in 2006 so as not to be associated with childhood obesity

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Vlwp TIL blind hiker Bill Irwin completed the Appalachian Trail with the help of his seeing eye dog, after falling ~5,000 times
LkXjp TIL that a popular New Year’s Eve tradition in Germany is to watch a relatively obscure 18 minute British short called Dinner For One (1963) with 17 million people tuning in on 31st December 2016.
9REG TIL Australia is moving so fast that they plan to adopt a moving GPS system by 2020 to compensate for the changes