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TIL An Olympian Sold Her Silver Medal To Fund A Boy's Surgery. The Buyer Let Her Keep It.

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N6L1 TIL bleach will begin to degrade into salt water after about 12 months, even if kept in the original container
KOxQa TIL that there is a depiction of the Prophet Muhammed showing his face on the US Supreme Court north wall frieze. He is depicted among other "great lawgivers" of history (like Hammurabi and Napoleon) and depicted with the Quran and a sword
7QYZ TIL The US could make 71 Billion a year just by taxing churches
4X4ko TIL that Boston Corbett - the man who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth - castrated himself with a pair of scissors in order to avoid sexual temptation and remain holy
N7QaN TIL Steven Spielberg's father, Arnold Spielberg, built a his own ham radio from scraps when he was 15, became an early computer pioneer in the 1950s and recently celebrated his 103rd birthday!