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TIL Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school.
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TIL that there is an “Awesome Foundation” that awards $1000 grants every month for “crazy brilliant” ideas and wants to “advance awesomeness in the universe.”
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TIL If a person would had invested $5k in Amazon.com 15 yrs ago (1997) today it would be valued at more than $8mil.
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TIL that Nikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce lightning storm.
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TIL that after losing a son to drug-related suicide, Carroll O'Connor publicly outed his son's dealer, and pushed for a law allowing families and employers to sue drug dealers to recover losses and costs of drug treatment
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TIL of Rhea Clyman, a Jewish Canadian Journalist who travelled to the Soviet Union and made reports on the Siberian labor camps and the Holodomor. This led to her deportation in 1933 after which she reported on Nazi Germany until 1938 when she was forced to flee due to growing anti Semitism.