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TIL about The Giving Pledge, a campaign started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to encourage extremely wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

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grZdX TIL the Interstate Highway Numbers have meanings. Odd Numbers go primarily North-South. Even Numbers go primarily East-West. Adding a 2 (such as 295) usually designates a loop returning to its parent highway (95).
D1jMJ TIL of Owney, a mascot of the USPS. He was considered to be good luck by postal railway clerks, since no train he rode on was ever in a wreck.
KOYRw TIL while catnip is a stimulant for cats, it is a sedative for dogs.
xGW0 TIL the median lethal dose (LD50) of marijuana is estimated (at the low end) at 1:20,000. This means a person would have to smoke around 15,000 pounds of marijuana in about 15 minutes to die from it.
Oonjg TIL that US Military tombstones come with 65 choices of religious symbol, including the hammer of Thor