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TIL Joel Osteen lives in a ten million dollar mansion

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R7Mga TIL Captain Herbert Sobel, portrayed by David Schwimmer in Band of Brothers, landed at Normandy, fought in WW2 and received the bronze star. He later attempted suicide but failed, blinding himself. He died from malnutrition 17 years later. No services were held after his death.
jNlVM TIL Guy Fawkes, a man famous for his part in the gunpowder plot to assassinate King James I of England, was ranked 30th in a BBC list of the 100 greatest Britons of all time. King James I did not make the list.
9YkaG TIL The stereotypical anchor tattoo indicated a sailor had crossed the Atlantic.
yQZ9w TIL that President Chester Arthur's grandson Gavin was described as "an Ivy League dropout, an Irish Republican Army activist, an experimental-film actor, a commune leader, a gold prospector, a teacher at San Quentin, and a bisexual sexologist/astrologer."
LkpZv TIL The cosmic-radiation dose rate on airplanes is so high that airline flight crew workers receive more dose on average than any other worker, including those in nuclear power plants.