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TIL that the “Success Kid” helped pay for his fathers kidney transplant. Due to the fact that so many people know of the meme, they were able to raise more than $100.000 for his surgery.

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l171 TIL that on this day in 1959, Five hundred thousand American steelworkers went on strike, closing nearly every steel mill in the country.
8awOV TIL McDonalds invested in Chipotle in 1998, and by 2005 owned 90% of the restaurants.
WkBbN TIL that in 2003 a Salvadore Dali painting was stolen from a prison on Rikers Island after hanging for 38 years. The thieves turned out to be four guards. No inmates were involved.
awEYM TIL that time of flight (ToF) sensors in our modern smartphones actually bounce a signal off the object in front of it and record how long the signal takes to return to the sensor in order to measure distance, kind of like radar
VQJB TIL, while Samuel Morse was in New York, he received a letter that warned of his wife’s illness. Morse left for home but arrived to find his wife already buried. Heartbroken that for days he was unaware of his wife’s illness and death lead him to research and patent the telegraph 22 years later.