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TIL George Michael donated money to a woman he saw on Deal or No Deal for IVF who could not get pregnant. She later discovered she was pregnant on Christmas day

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x61dw TIL that in 1866, Mark Twain went surfing in Hawaii.
N7XGM TIL in 2007, producers for ABC's Extreme Makeover coaxed a contestant's family into making hurtful comments about her ugliness, then cut the contestant from the show because the recovery period wouldn't fit their production schedule. The contestant's sister killed herself four months later.
XVyD TIL Michael Keaton refused 15,000,000 to play Batman Forever because Tim Burton was dropped as its director.
R6B6 TIL that in 1978 France rolled out a pre-World Wide Web online service that gave its users access to online shopping, search engines, cybersex and message boards. It reached 25 million users in the 90s, connecting to more than 23,000 services.
nnjY TIL that black olives sold in cans are actually green olives that are treated with chemicals such as iron salt to oxidize and turn black and look ‘more attractive’.