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Z8GJB TIL Anderson Cooper is heir to the Vanderbilt Family
lYMa TIL there are more tigers in Texas than in their native land of India
wor87 TIL that Iris Cummings, an American swimmer and pilot born December 21st 1920, is the last surviving athlete who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She earned her pilot's license in 1940. She was a flight instructor for almost 30 years and is now retired.
Y1Nx TIL: An Oregon elementary school cancelled its Pay-to-Pee Policy. The program punished children for needing to use the restroom outside of their scheduled bathroom breaks.
wo6jY TIL that Jim Lovell—the commander of the Apollo 13 mission who was portrayed by Tom Hanks in the 1995 film—had actually already flown to the Moon. He was the command module pilot for the Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.