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TIL Cher donated 180,000 bottles of water to Flint after their water was discovered unsafe due to lead contamination.

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oPvL TIL The Vatican purchased enough carbon offsets for the enitre Papal city in 2007. To this day, the promised planting of a “Vatican forest” has not happened.
W7xRN TIL about Raven Thorogood III, a 5 year old monkey who outperformed more than 6,000 internet and technology money managers earning an astonishing 213% return.
neoWG TIL in 1981, George Lucas sold the rights to a radio version of Star Wars to USC for $1 that became the 5hr 57min Star Wars radio drama that was broadcast on NPR
M87m TIL the author of The Princess Bride also wrote the screenplays for Misery, A Few Good Men, Twins, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and All The President’s Men.
5VWJ9 TIL it is the sperm that determines the sex of the baby prior to conception. The egg is always an X chromosome, if the sperm is X the baby is female (XX), if the sperm is Y the baby is male (XY)