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[TIL] The Mormon Church donates only about 0.7 percent of its annual income to charity. LDS Church is likely worth $40 billion today and collects up to $8 billion in tithing each year.

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jxyE TIL Dana Carvey had heart-bypass that was done incorrectly. He was awarded $7.5 million for medical malpractice which he donated entirely to charity.
wLQJ8 TIL In 1793, The French government implemented a new calendar, based on decimals. It had 10 days per week, 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute. The experiment lasted 12 years, failing to gain wider acceptance.
KY6jJ TIL in 2016 a group of Australian high school students made a key ingredient of the malaria medicine Daraprim (sold in the US for $US35,000 to $US110,000) for $US20
PYJkn TIL a 1970 episode of Hawaii Five-O featured a hanging method copied by a viewer of the show who died trying the technique. Their family sued CBS and the episode has never been rebroadcast and was excluded from DVD releases
pdx4 TIL that Al-Qaeda has a 5-phase strategy, culminating in the collapse of the US economy due to military overextension. 4 phases are complete.