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TIL Immortal Technique donated all the money he made on his last album to build an orphanage in Afghanistan.

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8aPmb TIL about the Bonn-Oberkassel dog, the oldest undisputed dog fossil, which is over 14 thousand years old. A pathology of the remains indicates the dog was ill and would not have been able to live without intensive human care.
14PO TIL the blanket octopus is known to rip off the venomous tentacles of the Portuguese man o’ war to use them as weapons
nWJpW TIL that the North American Tectonic Plate is so large it includes Greenland, parts of eastern Russia, and parts of northern Japan
QXP9 TIL NASA had to relabel the penis sleeve for urinating in space suits from “small, medium, and large” to “large, gigantic, and humungous” because astronauts would only choose the large and they kept slipping off.
OoKV6 TIL of Vedem, a Czech-language magazine produced in 1942 by boys aged 13-16 imprisoned at the Terezín concentration camp. The magazine featured things like poems, drawings, essays, and reviews, and was manually copied and distributed around. Around 800 original Vedem pages survived the war.