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TIL Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Donated $992 Million to Planned Parenthood

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kON9E TIL Garth Brooks holds the record for having the most diamond-certified records, having 9 of them - more than Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd put together.
ADY47 TIL that an anonymous Brit drew penises around potholes in Manchester to force authorities to stop delaying fixing them. It worked
plKN TIL the first RollerCoaster Tycoon was written entirely in assembly code - the raw language used by your processor - by one developer. He recieved $30 million for his efforts.
9YG1r TIL Voyager 1 and 2 both travel at 35,000mph, and are about 900,000 miles further away from Earth each day. They are now more than 10 billion miles away since launch in 1977.
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