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TIL After a video that went viral in 2012 showing a bus monitor getting bullied by students - a Canadian man set up a fundraiser to collect $5,000 for a vacation for her. In the end, they ended up collecting and giving the women over $700,000. She has since retired.

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awWE9 TIL The idiom see a man about a dog (horse) Is from the 1866 Dion Boucicault play Flying Scud. In the play, a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying, "Excuse me Mr. Quail, I can't stop; I've got to see a man about a dog."
oBkGo TIL The ladies of Havana was a group of woman that donated the equivalence 1 million dollars in jewelry to contribute to George Washington budget for his soldiers, this even was to be regarded as the 'bottom dollars' upon which the edifice of American independence was erected.
JYyal TIL the placebo effect works even if people know it is a placebo.
7rdpX TIL that Union General Philip Sheridan loved his horse “Winchester” so much that he had him preserved. He can be seen today at the Smithsonian.
OowGg TIL, that Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Queen's tribute for Elvis, took Freddie Mercury 10 minutes to write while taking a bath