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TIL: Stephen Colbert Helped Fund $800,000 in Grants for South Carolina Teachers

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BgRaW TIL the youngest person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's was only 19 years old
XkkQ TIL the Mormon church spent 1.5 billion dollars on a shopping mall this past year.
OKYX TIL that American soldiers used the ace of spaces as a terror weapon in the Vietnam War. They would leave the card on the bodies of killed Vietnamese and would litter the forested grounds with the card. The card was used so much that Bicycle was asked to produce crates full of this one card.
ZMo TIL Joseph Stalin’s real name is Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He adopted “Stalin” by combining ‘stal’, which is Russian for “steel” with “Lenin”.
rRXw TIL that most recycling companies throw out plastic water bottles that still have the cap on, due to it being a different type of plastic than the bottle.