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TIL A plumber found cash and checks stashed in a wall at Joel Osteen's Houston mega-church.

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VBGD TIL Ernest Hemingway along with his father, brother, sister, and granddaughter all committed suicide.
5Ynxn TIL that NASA engineers once asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was enough for a 7 day mission
yVNGw TIL Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first African-American female White House correspondent. She was also the first Black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries
ADew7 TIL that Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant operation. He retired after developing rheumatoid arthritis in his hands which ended his surgical career.
p8pKO TIL that scientists came together in a unique study that observed exactly 1,893 dogs pooping among 37 different breeds of dog, and found that dogs have "magnetoreception". Apparently while they are calm, they poop facing north or south. Quite a few other mammals do this too.