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TIL the homeless person, Kenni Nickel, from the viral video “How Does A Homeless Man Spend $100?” is dead. The youtuber behind the video, “Josh Paler Lin”, raised close to $150k on “indiegogo.com”, stating it was for Nickel, before he died. According to Nickel’s family he never received the money.

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MegG0 TIL Taylor Swift was born into wealth. Her father is "from three generations of bank presidents" and worked for Merrill Lynch. At the age of 14 her family moved to Nashville where her father purchased a stake in Big Machine, the label to which Swift first signed.
VMbRQ TIL Wilt Chamberlain's record setting 100-point game on March 2, 1962 was not televised (and no video exists of it as a result); only two different audio recordings from a radio telecast made by two different people (which were combined by historians) survives today of that game
OolY4 TIL about Project A119, a plan by American scientists and the Air Force to nuke the moon in a show of force during the Space Race. They also thought that dropping a bomb would allow them to be able to accurately study previously mysterious lunar properties
P1Y7w TIL that the word ‘alcohol’ originates from the Arabic word Al-kohl (like the eyeliner). Ancient Egyptians made the cosmetic through a process involving heating. During the Middle Ages, the term was adopted in reference to numerous substances produced through similar means, including “alcohol”.
xlBk TIL Strawberries can be used with Baking Soda to Whiten Teeth.