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TIL that Michael Jordan has been responsible for making more than 175 wishes come true for the Make-a-Wish Foundation

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GAyvJ TIL that Los Pepes, a vigilante group designed to combat Pablo Escobar, was themselves funded by rival drug cartels (notably the Cali Cartel) and had links themselves with law enforcement.
G5LG TIL That the tree where Isaac Newton discovered gravity is still alive and well, outside of his childhood home.
9QEG TIL That a firefighter was killed during 9/11 because someone jumped from one of top floors and hit him
p8G8N TIL of Johann Elser, a German carpenter who almost killed Adolf Hitler and most of the top Nazi leaders shortly before the outbreak of WWII. He worked alone to construct and plant a bomb that went off just 13 minutes too late. He was a Christian motivated by a sense that millions would soon die.
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