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TIL in 2007 police seized a photo of two nude children from Elton John's art collection as part of a child pornography investigation

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LmYr TIL Tesla Motors, and other companies run by Elon Musk, have been operating at a net loss for a decade and are heavily subsidized by the government (est. $4.9 billion)
D1Mv TIL the dolphin who played Flipper committed suicide and there are other cases of captive dolphins doing the same.
1ajlV TIL that engineers from six New York City television stations died in the 9/11 attacks because the transmission facilities were in the building and they had to keep broadcasting despite the ongoing disaster. They kept the stations on the air until the towers' collapse.
jN8jR TIL in 2014, an associate professor from Georgia Southern University got investigated for offering extra credit for students who watched God’s Not Dead 1
1vj4 TIL A British Man rescued 669 children destine for death camps from Nazis, arranged for them to have homes and smuggled them to Britain. Today is his 105th birthday