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TIL after the Sandy Hook shootings, people donated more than 65,000 teddy bears, 9 tractor trailers of paper snowflakes, and half a million letters to a town of only 27,000 people. Since then the bears have been re-donated across the globe to places including Haiti, and Afghanistan.

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5KB8 TIL a 2013 BBC study found that 56% of pilots fell asleep while flying, and 29% had woken up to find the co-pilot also asleep.
yVJvV TIL Dominik Hašek, one of the best NHL goaltenders of all time, was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in 1983. Because Hašek was from Czechoslovakia and behind the Iron Curtain, he did not know he was drafted by Chicago until several months later.
GYA47 TIL king Gustav III of Sweden commuted the death sentences of a set of twins to life imprisonment if one drank 3 pots of coffee and the other drank 3 pots of tea to test the effects of the newly introduced coffee.
0d7gp TIL Beagles are the dog breed most often used in animal testing, due to their size and passive nature.
kJYme TIL about Lettice Fisher who worked to reform UK laws such as the "Bastardy Acts" in order to challenge the stigma associated with single parent families, and to provide them with support