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TIL A newspaper reporter in Toronto, gave homeless people prepaid gift cards in $50 and $75 denominations. He then tracked them online, to see what they spent it on.

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E1aBo TIL Jeff Bridges wears the same t-shirt in 3 different movies, Cold feet, The fisher King, and The big Lebowski. The shirt is a pic of Japanese Professional Baseball Player, Kaoru Betto, who was the recipient of the first Pacific League MVP.
d8mp8 TIL that the phenomenon of "good" people excusing their bad behavior is an actual thing: moral licensing.
VBjyp TIL that scientists believe it might rain diamonds on Neptune
EeLP TIL PBS painter Bob Ross become a star in Japan after a dubbed version of his show started airing twice a day there. When he visited Japan he was mobbed with massive fans.
e0o0D TIL in 2018, a firefighter in Massachusetts was reprimanded when he received a call from a concerned cat owner about their pet being stuck in a tree and he responded with, “I’m sure they’ll make their way down eventually. I’ve never seen a cat skeleton in a tree before.”