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TIL there are 1.2 billion insects for every human on earth

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VMJ8D TIL: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar sent to Auschwitz for hiding jews; offered his life and volunteered to die in the place of another camp inmate who was about to executed, who cried that he had a ‘wife’ and a ‘child’. Maximilian on the other hand, had no family. In 1982 he was made into a Saint.
Wk4OY TIL that Robert Forrester was originally cast as the lead in Larry Cohen's horror film God Told Me To (1976), but was fired by Cohen because he wouldn't stop chewing gum during his scenes.
ydvJ TIL Katharine Lee Bates, author of ‘America the Beautiful’ was a lesbian who left the Republican party in 1924 over its growing xenophobia
nXMY TIL in writing his tombstone, Thomas Jefferson listed his successes - author of the Declaration of American Independence and the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom and the Father of the University of Virginia - but forgot 1 small achievement: that he was once president of the United States.
R5LVQ TIL there is no federal statute that says a private business, person, or organization must accept currency or coins