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TIL That Paul Newman’s company Newman’s Own donates all after tax profits to charity. Over $430 Million and counting.

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rNaj1 TIL the CIA has a venture capital fund it uses to identify and fund various technologies with "national security" interest
Yy8W TIL a cave in France has the footprints of an 8- to 10-year-old boy left in the mud 26,000 years ago alongside the paw prints of either a wolf or a large dog, the oldest evidence of human/canine relationships ever found.
ppwN TIL:The video “Runaway” Train by Soul Asylum had different versions depending in what country it was shown. They each showed photos and videos of missing kids from the areas where it was shown. 26 kids from the video were eventually found.
gnP9 TIL that the Elvish language in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and 'The Lord of The Rings’ is based on Finnish.
0deQ1 TIL that that "Bring me the Horizon" got their band name from a line in Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of The Black pearl(2003)