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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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ZWGY TIL in 2000, a Wild Turkey whiskey storage facility caught fire, spilling 17,000 barrels of flaming whiskey into the surrounding woods, catching them ablaze. Twenty percent of the whiskey flowed into the Kentucky River, disrupting its oxygen supply, killing 228,000 fish along 66 miles of the river.
D9YY TIL that development of the F-35 fighter jet exceeded the would-be cost of sending humans to Mars.
W7xlA TIL in 2019, a hand-drawn cel depicting the twin towers from the classic Simpsons episode “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson”, was given to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, in what the curator termed a "hilarious and tender" donation.
eWY4 TIL that a Catholic priest named Michael Clegg first began distributing ecstasy and at its peak he was delivering 500,000 pills to the Dallas area per month.
rRlD0 TIl The reason Roger Moore stopped being James Bond was because of how much older he was than his female co-stars. He was in his 50s, and they were in their 20s. In his own words: “Well, the leading ladies were young enough to be my grand-daughter and it becomes disgusting.”