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TIL in 1985 the Philadelphia police dropped two bombs on West Philadelphia

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Ev1V TIL that there an aluminum cent was planned to be released in 1974, but this proposal was later dropped and the U.S. Mint’s stockpiles of these cents got destroyed. However, a few aluminum cents not returned to the Mint are believed to remain in existence.
J18wl TIL; John Madden was offered unlimited stock to the first Madden NFL video game but declined and later called it "the dumbest thing (he) ever did in (his) life." It has sold over 130 million copies.
Wk4Y9 TIL that Dolly Parton lost a Dolly lookalike contest. The winner was a man.
R7aQ TIL- there is a gang of women in India that go after abusive husbands and fight to stop child marriages.
kOpOE TIL that all a copy of all the open source software code on Github is stored in a decommissioned coal mine in Svalbard archipelago (right next to the Global Seed Vault) long-term preservation. The archive designed to last at least 1,000 years.