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TIL a Jacksonville Florida man who wished to remain anonymous bought over 100 generators (at about $450 each) to send to the Bahamas via the Errol Thurston Bahamas Hurricane Relief Fund. (A fellow Florida man in line with him at Costco noticed it and posted about the man's deed on social media).

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0d6Vj TIL when Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft had an asteroid named after him, he wrote a constitution for it's future inhabitants including articles that forbid use of imperial measurement units, outlaw the use of apostrophes, and limit the length of tax forms to one page.
nWaeY TIL about "The Bell of Good Luck", the heaviest functioning bell in the world at 116 metric tons (255,200 lbs). It's 8.1 metres high and 5.1 metres in diameter
8Pya TIL that Shakespeare was the first to use many words with the prefix “un” (such as unreal, undress, uneducated, unmitigated, unchanging, etc) in print or on stage.
edn4 TIL that a psychological condition called “Koro” makes sufferers believe that their genitals have been stolen.
pYlG TIL actor James Cromwel was vegetarian and actually switched to an even stricter (vegan) diet when he played “Farmer Hoggett” in the movie Babe (1995).