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TIL in 2012 a 9-year-old boy decided he wanted to help the families of fallen US soldiers. He started a Facebook page and ‘traded up’ his toy soldier into $900 worth of Disney World gift certificates. He then gave the dream holiday to a 2 year-old girl who had lost her father in Afghanistan.

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0w8Ep TIL of Chartreuse, a storied French liqueur with a recipe that dates back to the early 1600s. The recipe originated in an old alchemical textbook presented to an order of monks by an artillery marshal of the French army. The original order of monks retains brewing rights to this day.
mAnx TIL On this day (February 15) 2416 years ago, Socrates was sentenced to death by people of Athens.
B5xy TIL There was a 20 year patent on mini games during loading screens that recently expired last year. This is why all loading screens aren’t interactive and usually only contain flavour or lore text.
1nmP TIL Bug zappers fell out of common use because for every 10,000 bugs it killed, only eight were found to be mosquitoes.
E1y9W TIL Joshua Trees are in the same taxonomic family as Asparagus and are therefore related