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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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4Xwva TIL before opening his first Wendy's restaurant, Dave Thomas worked for KFC. He is credited with inventing the famous red & white KFC bucket, and advising Col. Sanders to appear in his own commercials.
8aLmP TIL about the American Revolution's Pine Tree Flag which featured the words "An Appeal to Heaven." It was one of a few different flag designs used for the new nation during the war.
Y1gG TIL the Illuminati was an actual secret society whose goals were “to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.”
N9jM TIL that the tongue of a blue whale can weigh as much as an elephant and an entire football team could stand on it
bDkZ TIL Male Victims of Domestic Violence who call law enforcement for help are statistically more likely to be arrested themselves than their female partners. - Source: The National Institute of Health [PDF]