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TIL the co-founder of Pinkberry beat a homeless man with a tire iron after the homeless man flashed a tattoo that the co-founder thought was offensive. He’s now doing seven years in prison.

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ADoZg TIL Nicolas Cage once donated $2 million to Amnesty International for them to use to offer rehabilitation shelters, medical services and psychological and reintegration services to some of the 300,000 children forced to fight in conflicts across the world.
X05DQ TIL: During the 18 months of the Great Plague (1665-1666), Isaac Newton conceived calculus, set foundations for his theory of light and color, theory of gravity, worked on laws of planetary motion and wrote many papers creating the foundations of early calculus.
lo10V TIL Polish community in the UK tried to build a memorial to commemorate the Katyn Massacre (22K Poles were killed in 1940 by the USSR), but it was rejected by successive UK governments due to Soviet’s pressure. When it was unveiled in 1976 no official government representatives showed up.
NENb TIL a man built a restaurant in Northern Iraq called MaDonal’s after McDonald’s turned denied his request. The restaurant serves items such as “Big Macks,” and serves free food to U.S. forces, and thus has been threatened by suicide bombers, turning the man into a local celebrity.
DQNAV TIL that Kim Walker, who played Heather Chandler in the 1989 film Heathers in which she famously asked “Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?” died of a brain tumor in 2001.