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TIL McDonald’s made the design of the McFlurry container hedgehog friendly, so hedgehogs wouldn’t get stuck in them getting leftover food.

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GY4GQ TIL of the "Gimli Glider", Air Canada Flight 143, a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. Successfully landed with 0 casualties.
Zp5oR TIL In 2023, Canada's Quttinirpaaq National Park, located about 800 kilometres south of the North Pole, received new management plan to strengthen Inuit engagement on research, tourism and infrastructure. Between 2008 and 2017, an average of 17 people visited the park annually
OvrX TIL that they used rescue dog as ball catchers in the 2016 Brazil Open
ANP7 TIL that refrigerating eggs is not necessary, and that in many countries outside the US, eggs are kept at room temperature
v9p4 TIL Robert Trujillo, bass guitarist for Metallica, helped Jaco Pastorius family to recover his stolen original Bass Of Doom Fender Jazz Bass