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TIL 5-year-old William Everetz wanted to spend his allowance on kindness, so he saved his money for 5 months to buy lunch for the entire Winslow Township in NJ. He bought them Subway so they could ‘be healthy’ and the police gave him a shirt and badges, and made him an honorary officer

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jNpnp TIL Rich kids perform better in the Marshmallow Test. A marshmallow is put in front of a child. If they manage 15 mins without eating it, they can have another one. The ability to resist the marshmallow is mainly determined by the child's social and economic background.
69bg8 TIL a poll of 1,000 US visitors to Scotland found 33% thought haggis was an animal; 23% said they came to Scotland believing they could catch one. Haggis is a Scottish pudding traditionally boiled in a sheep's stomach filled with liver, heart, lung, oatmeal, suet, stock, onions and spices.
QJgAk TIL the founder of Dave's Killer Bread worked at his family's bakery as a kid and having suffered from depression and addiction committed crimes that led to a fifteen year sentence. He was released early and returned to the bakery to start his company. He now runs foundation called Second Chance.
0wA1 TIL there is a restaurant that only serves food from countries the USA is in conflict with.
70Vx TIL when Harry Houdini died, he willed all of his effects and props to his brother but stipulated that they be burned when his brother died. They never were and instead donated to a museum. In 1995, the museum caught fire and was destroyed but many props still survived.