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TIL Chris Farley was hired to voice Shrek and had finished 80-90% of his recording sessions at the time of his death

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pKpG TIL of George Stinney, the youngest person ever executed in America, at 14. He was wrongly charged for murder after finding the bodies of two white girls in South Carolina.
Y719d TIL a flight attendant saved a young girl who was being human trafficked and was accompanied by an older man who wouldn’t let her speak. Flight attendant left a note in the bathroom, the girl indicated she needed help. The pilot was informed, and authorities were waiting when the plane landed.
LY0P TIL It takes 95% less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to make it from raw materials.
Egg57 TIL dolphins can use their echo-location to examine an object, and then later have the ability to recognize it in person or on a video monitor.
KZyB TIL The largest ransom ever paid to a single individual was to the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, by the Inca Empire before their leader, Atahualpa, the victim, was executed in 1532. The ransom payment of a “roomful of gold” was probably over $2 billion in today’s economic markets.