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TIL, FDR asked singer Eddie Cantor if he could get a million people to send in a dollar to support polio research. He replied that it would be easier to ask for dimes. By the end of the month, the White House had received 2.68 million dimes ($268k) and the March of Dimes began.

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epmGk TIL that in competitive chess, if you want to adjust a piece that has been knocked over or jostled away from the center of its square, you use the French terms "J'adoube", which also means "I nominate (to a position)" and "I bestow knighthood upon (someone)".
OkyX TIL the symbol for bluetooth is a bind rune made from the pre-viking runes of the tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth’s name.
4XJGg TIL that the same company that made the Rugrats and Wild Thornberrys (Klasky Csupo) were hired by the McDonald’s Co. to make a 6 episode animated series called “The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald”
69d0Y TIL Otis Redding died 3 days after recording (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
P8OZ TIL: The ocean garbage patches are in a region with almost no life, “an ocean desert” and we would be better off preventing more plastic from entering the ocean than trying to clean them.