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TIL Mr. T Stopped Wearing His Trademark Gold Jewelry Because of His Experience Helping People After Hurricane Katrina “I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”

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bON9 TIL that Chef Gordon Ramsay originally aspired to be a professional soccer player, but then suffered a knee injury that he never fully recovered from. He then decided to follow his already growing interest in culinary education so he wouldn’t be known as “the football player with the gammy knee”.
RNVa TIL that in 2008, a computer simulation of a China vs. America war was run. The U.S. lost.
5VoZr TIL that the largest volcano in our solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars, is about 13.6 miles (22 kilometers) high—nearly three times the height of Mount Everest—and is so wide that its base would cover the entire state of New Mexico.
VMVgD TIL that zoopharmacogneosy is the science that studies how animals self medicate in the wild by ingesting or applying specific plants or non foods such as clay and charcoal.
pwPA TIL that the Vatican City is named after the hill that it’s built upon, the name of which pre-dates Christianity