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TIL Ozzy Osbourne donated $10,000 to a music school for underprivileged children after watching their rendition of “Crazy Train”

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OodBL TIL that the youngest French resistance hero was a little boy who acted as a courier for resistance fighters, slipping past enemy patrols and carrying messages. In 1950, he was posthumously awarded the rank of sergeant of the resistance. He was Marcel Pinte, and he died for France at the age of 6.
NgbP TIL the Quartermaster on Pirate ships could veto the captain’s decisions whenever the ship was not chasing a prize or engaged in battle
nyab TIL The colored dots found on soda cans consist of all the colors used in the can design. If a can makes it through production and a dot is gone, then laborers will be able to trace the problem to a single machine applying that color, without shutting down all of the machines to resolve the problem
W7EZB TIL that the IRS has free online sites to do your taxes
8MVL TIL Kathryn Beaumont voiced Alice from Disney’s “Alice In Wonderland” at the age of 13 and over 50 years later voiced Alice again in Kingdom Hearts at age 64.