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TIL McDonald's ended sales of nuggets in Japan after someone found a piece of vinyl in a nugget

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mxkNO TIL of Deryfold, a notorious pirate who was captured off the coast of Flanders by Sir John Perrot in 1579. On the way back to England Perrot's ship struck a sandbank and was nearly wrecked, but Deryfold's nautical expertise got them safely into port. Perrot made sure he was pardoned.
N7yAM TIL in the 90s Costa Rica saved a dying forest by dumping 12,000 tons of waste orange peels and pulp (1000 truckloads)
ANG1n TIL Eric Carmen's (to me, Celine Dion's) "All by Myself" snagged its melody from Rachmaninoff's 'Adagio sostenuto', the second movement of his 'Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18'.
DQDGr TIL of Gander New Newfoundland: A place that took care of travelers that were diverted after during 9/11
l4A5 TIL about Jewish ballerina Franceska Mann who in 1943 while being forced to disrobe at Auschwitz for delousing distracted a SS guard, stole his pistol and shot him dead.