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TIL that Bingo was the name of the farmer, not the dog

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p058 TIL after his wife died because the nearest doctor was 70km away, Dashrath Manjhi carved a 360-foot-long and 30-foot-wide path through a mountain in 22 years, using a hammer and a chisel to make the path from his village to Wazirganj, with its doctors, jobs, and school, only 15 km away.
E1Y8X TIL about the "Battle of Los Angelos", when the US army fired over 1400 rounds of artillery fire into the skies over LA, when it turned out that there were actually no enemy aircraft.
R79GQ TIL that the US court confirmed that Snuggies are blankets, not clothes
R5e09 TIL that the children’s choir in “Another Brick in the Wall, pt. 2” was recorded by Pink Floyd’s producer and engineer without the band’s knowledge. The children were paid with concert tickets, an album and a single; only decades later did they file a claim to receive royalties.
dDp6E TIL A human placenta is worth $50,000