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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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DQwoe TIL Mr. T stopped wearing nearly all of his gold, which was one of his distinguishing features, after assisting with the cleaning following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He stated "I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”
691jX TIL 19-year-old Matilda Scheurer, a Victorian-era factory worker, died after regular exposure to Scheele's Green, a popular arsenic-based dye used in various common items at the time. She died after allegedly vomiting green, while the whites of her eyes and her fingernails turned green.
woX1J TIL: An advertising company wanted to use Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire in a Hemorrhoid commercial
p84G8 TIL Cartoon Network banned an episode of Cow and Chicken called "Buffalo Gals" which allegedly implied lesbian stereotypes including the Gals being mistaken for men and the line "Oh! the Buffalo Gals, a motorcycle riding gang that randomly breaks into people's homes and chews on their carpets."
ealJ TIL The man responsible for introducing tobacco to Europe was imprissoned by the Spanish Inquisition because “only Devil could give a man the power to exhale smoke from his mouth.”