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TIL: An American charity pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.

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nL9Y TIL George de Hevesy dissolved the Nobel Prizes of James Franck (1925) and Max von Laue (1925) in acid to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them in 1940. After the war, he precipitated the gold and The Nobel Society recast the medals with the original material, presenting them to Franck and Laue.
klWd TIL the longest work of fiction ever written is a Super Smash Bros. fanfic. As of last year, it was 3,548,615 words long, six times longer than “War and Peace.”
LyGm TIL: Johnny Knoxville comes from significant inbreeding.
0NN1 TIL that mysteriously dark regions on Mars are made of glass
avDZ TIL days after Hurricane Katrina, an 20year old man with extensive criminal history named Jabbar Gibson stole a school bus and picked up around 70 stranded people and drove 13 hours from NO to Houston. The first bus to arrive at the Astrodome.