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TIL A school had a mascot named after a racial slur, and some people are still mad when the school changed the mascot.

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p8kMe TIL of Doug Tompkins, a high school drop-out and the co-founder of North Face and Esprit. He eventually sold both businesses and started to do conservation work in South America with his second wife, former CEO of Patagonia. A very experienced outdoorsman, he died from hypothermia while kayaking.
kOAOg TIL that the actors playing the rebel soldiers on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back, were all members of the Norwegian Red Cross. For their participation in the film, George Lucas made a large donation to the organization
9wd0r TIL that the average person spends over 11 hours a day looking at screens. This is a significant increase from just a few years ago, and it is having a negative impact on our health and well-being.
QpXp TIL Sard, the language spoken on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, is much nearer Classical Latin than any other surviving Romance language.
l7nl7 TIL that there are 31.7 million small businesses in the US and 81% of them have no employees and are considered to be "nonemployers".