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TIL I learned that Jack MacDonald (A 98 year old secret Philanthropist, war veteran and lawyer) Lived the life of a poor person and saved all his money to donate to charity after his death. He donated 188 million dollars to 3 Washington institutions after his death at age 98.

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J1nl4 TIL while filming “Dirty Dancing” in Oct 1984, the Virginian cold weather caused the temperatures to drop to 40 °F (4 °C) during the swimming scene. Jennifer Grey later described the water as “horrifically cold”, and said she might not have gone into the lake, except that she was “young and hungry.”
Br0LW TIL Kazakh author Rollan Seisenbayev wrote a novel about the human-engineered collapse of the Aral Sea, first published in in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Aral's shrinkage left seaside villages and beached shipping vessels far from the shoreline, destroying the fisheries
wLgd8 TIL that many snails and slugs choose their mates by stabbing them in the body with hormone-covered implements called the 'love dart'
KYg5R TIL that both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of the Founding Fathers of the United States and later Presidents, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
R78g6 TIL - The people of Boston disliked Andrew Jackson so much that someone snuck into a shipyard and sawed the head off of a Jackson figurehead on the U.S.S Constitution and sent it to the secretary of the Navy.