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TIL the patron saint of urgent causes is named Expeditus, or Expedite.

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OvrX TIL that they used rescue dog as ball catchers in the 2016 Brazil Open
lLn1 TIL a 12-year-old was awarded $3,000 for finding couple of bugs in Mozilla codebase
aL0M TIL- In 1933 America’s most senior, most decorated Marine, General Smedley Butler, told the House of Representitives that wealthy businessmen tried to recruit him to overthrow President Roosevelt in a coup, and install a fascist government.
xY4k TIL the man who killed President McKinley, often dismissed as a mentally disturbed anarchist, did it in part due to US policies in the Philippines at the time, which though nearly forgotten today, resulted in the deaths of 200k-250k civilians and over 5,000 US troops
bodE TIL that NASA did not actually spend $12 billion on a Space Pen while the Russians used a pencil.