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TIL that chance the rapper raised $60,000 in just 10 days for the homeless in Chicago!

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jbPE TIL Lorillard Tobacco Company used to hand out Newport cigarettes to black children in playgrounds
a9y9 TIL 50 years ago a young girl died in the canals surrounding an uninhabited island in Xochimilco, Mexico. Ever since, dolls have been washed ashore, and the few natives hang them in memory of the young girl. The island is known as “Island of the Dolls”
XEojD TIL Mike Tyson's workout involved getting up at 4am for a 5-mile jog. Then he would do (cumulatively) 2000 sit-ups, 500 pushups, 500 dips, 500 shrugs and about 30 minutes of neck bridges daily. He repeated this 6 days a week.
LQpb0 TIL that Laos is the most bombed country in the world and the United States eventually dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years
5nw8 TIL that a group of Nuns is called a Superfluity, Cobblers a Drunkenship, and (wild) Cats a Destruction. Here is a huge list of Collective Nouns.