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TIL a man names Chuck Feeney gave away over 99% of his $6.3 billion to help underprivileged kids go to college. He is now worth $2 million.

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VLVQ TIL 1948 winter Olympic Game’s athletes lacked the resources to compete post WWII, to the point where the Norwegian team had to borrow skis from the American team
6EA0w TIL an analysis based on insurance industry data concluded that without aging or disease, people would live an average of nearly 9,000 years before accident, murder, or disaster got them.
mxlLY TIL that J. Cole graduated from St. John’s University in 2009, but did not receive his diploma until 2015 due to an overdue library book
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