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TIL: Thomas Edison paid his son Thomas Edison Jr. an allowance of $35.00 a week ($925.25 in 2017) to not use his own name.

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16rod TIL: That Gretel Bergmann, a German Jewish athlete, was banned from the Berlin Olympics despite matching the German high jump record. Two weeks before the Olympics, she received a letter from the German sports authorities stating she was being removed from the national team for under-performance.
n0Ar TIL that in 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.
QJmg6 TIL A woman put over a million miles on her Hyundai Elantra and was given a special badge and a brand new car
6EvQm TIL- Bees don't buzz during an eclipse - Using tiny microphones suspended among flowers, researchers recorded the buzzing of bees during the 2017 North American eclipse. The bees were active and noisy right up to the last moments before totality. As totality hit, the bees all went silent in unison.
LQBxd TIL the way horses are transported to the Olympics is by flying in a Boeing 727 cargo plane refitted to be an airborne stable. That is plane is lovingly referred to as "Air Horse One"