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TIL That the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has donated over $10,000,000 to charity since they started touring.

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d6j8 TIL that Irene Triplett, an 84-year-old woman in North Carolina, still collects a monthly Civil War pension of $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is the last child of any Civil War veteran still on the VA benefits rolls.
jND1E TIL of Victor Prather, a NASA pilot who successfully tested a new space suit in a low-orbit flight in 1961. Prather opened his suit’s faceplate when he could breathe again on descent, and landed in the ocean as planned; however, his suit’s buoyancy was ruined by his open faceplate, and he drowned.
jNv9p TIL of Yaphank, NY, a town where certain plots of land required the owners to be of German descent and hosted many German-American Bund rallies. The property rules existed into the 2000s, when they were finally sued under Fair Housing doctrine.
J18Gm TIL that the 1942 Rose Bowl was played in North Carolina because of the fear of a Japanese West Coast attack
DQX5v TIL Coal-fired power plants produce more radioactive waste than nuclear power plants