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TIL after meeting a homeless veteran in 2011, a UC Berkeley Student created an app called Feeding Forward that connects events with surplus food to those in need. One IT convention had enough leftovers to feed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.

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E1vJW TIL: Einstein reportedly didn't want his brain studied post-mortem; nonetheless, the autopsy doctor took the brain without family permission. It took around 20 years for the public to learn just how much of the "specimen" remained with that doctor.
8AJL TIL that many incredients in lip balms – phenol, camphor, eucalyptus, menthol, peppermint and spearmint – are skin irritants or drying agents, which provide short term relief but end up making your lips worse in the long run, thus encouraging you to use more lip balm.
kJaad TIL about Project Azorian: The C.I.A.'s secret submarine retrieval mission. After a Russian submarine crashed a millionaire helped them secretly build a ship with a giant claw game on the bottom of it, complete with over three miles of pipe to lower the claw.
YGrd TIL there is a building in Tokyo built in 1972, whose rooms consist of tiny 90 square foot capsule apartments that can be individually replaced like lego pieces.
BgMWe TIL that normal blood pressure used to be considered 100 plus your current age.