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TIL that the founder of Bose Corporation donated a majority of the company to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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O6ZR TIL that the holocaust survivor Ellie Weisel lost his life savings in the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme, and that his charity lost $15 million
Lk19r TIL a white man, after attempting to lynch a black woman by breaking into her home and setting it on fire, was lynched in retaliation by a mob from the woman's home town
8vKX TIL during the making of Grandma’s Boy, all weed smoked in the movie was real, even though they were given fake weed to smoke.
1adY4 TIL Deutsche bank has a lot of questionable suicides among their executives and are involved in fraud/corruption. Currently, a Deutsche bank executive is missing in Los Angeles
m1WgR TIL there is desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate has been kept filled with candy since 1965. It’s called the ‘Candy Desk’.