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TIL A kid used his Make-A-Wish to create a video game to help other young cancer patients cope with chemotherapy and fighting cancer.

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JY6gl TIL that, because zeppelins often could not see the ground during flight due to cloud cover, they would lower a man in a small chamber called a sub-cloud car by a wire as much as a thousand or so feet to observe the ground and direct the pilots via telephone.
dDal9 TIL Mel Gibson is actually American and moved to Australia as a young boy and eventually decided to stay in Australia for good. I always asummed he was an Australian that did an amazing "American accent"
NXAd8 TIL Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali, North Africa.
x6Xj0 TIL Ordinary South Korean citizens could not get a passport and travel abroad until 1989, right after the end of dictatorship. Until 1992, South Koreans who wanted to travel abroad still had to go through anti-communist education
d8No8 TIL two men paid €1.5 million in counterfeit money for a painting, only to find out that the painting was fake.