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TIL an Australian teen actually rode a whale and then got in trouble for it

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1je8 TIL that 37% of public school teachers use personal money to buy food more than once a month for their hungry students. They spend an average of $35/month. With 3.1M teachers in the US, teachers are spending about $400M/year of their personal money to feed hungry students.
dD5EE TIL that transplanted organs can change the host’s personality to align more closely to the donor’s personality.
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