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TIL in 2018, a middle school in Dallas organized an event called “Breakfast with Dads,” but saw that not all of the students have fathers or father figures to attend the event with. So, they put up a post on Facebook seeking around 50 volunteers. On the day of the event, 600 men showed up to help.

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Gdw7 TIL Japan deployed 9,000+ fire balloons against the US in WW2. Japan’s citizens were informed of thousands of casualties and huge fires. In reality, less than 300 of the intercontinental balloons reached american, only 6 people died and most americans did not know they existed.
lJa TIL that Bob Dylan plays Jimi Hendrix’ version of “All Along the Watchtower” instead of his own.
ne5No TIL that molotov cocktails are named after Soviet diplomat Vyacheslav Molotov. In the Winter War, Molotov claimed that the Soviets did not bomb the Finns, but instead were sending food supplies to starving civilians. In response Finnish soldiers dubbed petrol filled bottles Molotov's Cocktails.
Wkpr8 TIL the first generation of stars in the Universe were all several thousand times more massive than the Sun and were made of hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium. All the heavier chemical elements were formed within their cores. One of these stars was observed for the first time in 2015.
woAlE TIL a serial killer “Barbie” Karla Homolka, who together with her husband “Ken” Paul Bernardo murdered 3 young women including her own sister, spent only 12 years in prison & is happily married to her trial attorney’s brother raising 3 children