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TIL Edmund Kemper helped a nonprofit called Volunteers of Vacaville in reading/recording books for blind people to listen to. He logged over 5000 hours between 1977-1987 but stopped in 2015 after a stroke.

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Oo857 TIL that the painting of George Washington used on the dollar bill was never completed.
aMjA TIL that Shasta Beverages, the company best known for all the third-tier sodas you can find at the dollar store, invented the soda can
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P1g9G TIL an Islandic company named Kerecis makes skin grafts from fish skins (of North Atlantic cod caught in Icelandic waters). The fish-skin graft is approved by the FDA as well as European regulatory authorities