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TIL - Eminem was an anonymous donor to a Detroit charity, giving 105k in one year. When it was brought to light that he was the anonymous donor, he matched donations up to 100k the next year.

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KO4vR TIL when New Zealand crowd-sourced ideas for a new national flag, one of the most infamous designs was "Fire the Lazer", a flag with a silver fern and a kiwi shooting a laser out of its eyes.
9wb77 TIL that my cake day coincides with the introduction of the Oreo, released by Nabisco on March 6, 1912.
awBDA TIL that Ohio and Michigan "went to war" in 1835 in a border dispute called the Toledo War. No one was killed, but one man got stabbed.
R50Da TIL Celine Dion met her future husband when she was 12 and he was 38, when he became her manager.
XEanP TIL While filming the 2000 hit movie, Castaway, Tom Hanks received a cut and got a staph infection that nearly killed the Academy Award winning actor. The cut gave him blood poisoning, Hanks was in the hospital for 3 days and production of the movie was shut down for 3 weeks.