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TIL that after his experience playing Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump, Gary Sinise established a charity to help disabled veterans.

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m1EAo TIL Sri Lankan businessman Merrill J. Fernando introduced Dilmah Tea in 1988 by phrasing it as "single-origin tea" going against the industry trend at the time. He also became a cultural icon in New Zealand in 1990 after starring in the “Do Try It!” campaign directed by a New Zealand agency.
d88bQ TIL on a flight, Nicolas Cage used the PA system and said that he was the pilot and was not feeling well. At the airport, police prepared to arrest Cage and his traveling partner, Charlie Sheen. After Cage politely talked his way out of it, he later discovered that Sheen was carrying cocaine on him.
ANxo TIL If you rub and onion on your foot, you’ll taste it within 30-60 min, because it travels through your bloodstream
Z8KYQ TIL that there are more trees on Earth (3 trillion), than stars in the Milky Way (100 billion).
e1Wb TIL that in 1974 fundamentalist Christians in Kanawha County were so upset over “immoral” books like “Autobiography of Malcolm X” being introduced to local schools they dynamited a school, attacked school buses with shotguns, and planted a bomb at a school board member’s home.