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TIL a 12-year-old boy spent 2 years collecting over 160,000 bottles after school and donated all the money he made ($2,700) to orphans in an AIDS epidemic region in China. He also donated his personal savings ($30) and collected 800 books to give to the children.

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EY00 TIL In 1958 the US air force accidently dropped a nuclear bomb on South Carolina.
GYX4Q TIL In 1951 Thelma Howard was hired as a maid for Walt & Lillian Disney. Walt would gift her shares of Disney stock every X-mas for the next 30 yrs. She died in 1994 that's when it was discovered she still had all 192,000 shares valued at $9,000,000. It went to disadvantaged kids & her disabled son
LkWlV TIL that the US and New Zealand are the only countries in the world where direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs is legal
0wJDv TIL a woman was buried alive. Her husband heard her screaming from inside the coffin and tried to break her free. When they finally got her out, she was dead again but her fingers were bruised and the glass inside the coffin smashed.
GA7A5 TIL Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun