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TIL of the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, a London monument commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten.

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gMMLD TIL Billionaire Steve Jobs never gave money to charity
e07A5 TIL in 1724 Margaret Dickson was hanged but later found still alive. She then was allowed to go free because under Scots Law her punishment had been carried out. Only later were the words "until dead" added to the sentence of hanging
yQjwe TIL that two window-washers and a health food store owner founded Unadulterated Food Products in 1972. After creating a batch of apple juice that accidentally fermented in the bottle and caused the caps to snap off, they began calling the drink Snapple which later became the company name.
n7YW TIL American psychologist Harry Harlow put rhesus monkeys into a “Pit of Despair” for up to a year to study depression.
7rvYx TIL The 737 airliner used to have a switch to easily disable a runaway autopilot. The 737 MAX replaced this switch with one that was useless because it wired the pilot's control into the same switch.