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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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d8oOj TIL New Jersey has a program called "Mobile Response", which is an emergency service for parents and children. If your child is having a meltdown, or is violent, or is disabled, or is addicted, and you can't cope, you can call a number and have someone come help you 24/7.
oBll7 TIL that Holger the Dane is a fabled Frankish knight, and statue, in the catacombs of Kronborg in Denmark. He will, according to folklore, come to life if Denmark is ever threatened by a foreign invasion. He was first mentioned in the 12th century, and the statue was built in 1907.
jNdjn TIL George Stathakis went down Niagara Falls in a barrel. However, the barrel got stuck behind a curtain of water and he could not be recovered for 18 hours. He only had air supply for eight hours and died of suffocation. Stathakis went down with his 150 year old turtle, which survived the ordeal.
Lk7x9 Today I learned of Sir Anthony Hopkins. Apart from a talented actor, he is also a famed painter and composer. He also has snuck a peice of his work in the film The Two Popes.
a0RZ TIL that MartinLutherKing.org is actually a website designed by a brutal, xenophobic, racist group called StormFront (US-based) to discredit King