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TIL that during an NYC parade to celebrate Jesse Owens after he won four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics, an anonymous fan handed him a paper bag with $10,000 in cash.

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b004 TIL that crocodiles will balance sticks over their snouts in order to lure water birds that are searching for nesting material. They have only been seen doing this during the bird’s nesting season.
N7OWQ Today I learned the Cornus Florida is the state tree for Virginia and Missouri, but not Florida.
LQgo0 TIL: Ireland moved a whole motorway for a fairy bush.
Z8nNQ TIL the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormons, has a nuclear warhead proof vault built deep into a mountain in Utah, USA. This vault contains genealogical records on hundreds of millions of people.
neyno TIL the numbers (1-10) that we use every single day were actually made by Indians and spread by Arabs who found it very easy to use and adopted it into mathematics and is actually called Arabic numerals, because Europeans discovered it via the Arabs during the 6th century. Is this common knowledge?