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TIL Michael Jackson’s will dictates that his estate annually donate 20% of his posthumous earnings to various charities.

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jnj TIL that as a boy, Michael Bay attached some firecrackers to a toy train and filmed the ensuing fiery disaster with his mother’s 8mm camera.
Gx7 TIL Gabe Newell is married and has 2 sons. 2.
BrpZK TIL A farmer once sued his neighbor for shooting and killing his dog for 150 dollars in damages. The Lawyer George Graham Vest took the case and in his closing argument gave a eulogy of sorts known as Vest "Eulogy on the Dog" which is memorable to this day.
DEXV TIL Hillsdale College founded in 1844, known as the conservative Harvard, was the first college to have discrimination based on sex, religion, or race in admissions prohibited in its charter, and also refused to play in the 1956 Tangerine Bowl when its black players were not allowed on the field.
woLmW TIL about Fordlândia, a very large plot of land that Henry Ford purchased in Brazil. He developed and utilized this land in order to try and meet the need for his own rubber production for his car tires. This project would eventually fail and was abandoned in 1934.