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TIL of Francesco Datini, a 14th century wealthy businessman who before his death in 1410 founded a secular charity fund(which still exists today) and left them his entire fortune. Among his possessions were 150.000 business records which the fund preserved nearly intact, tucked under a stairway

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Brxer TIL of Hind al-Husseini, a Palestinian woman who rescued 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre. She converted her grandfather's mansion into an orphanage to house them, which became a school providing education to orphans and other children from Palestinian towns and villages.
mxlrp TIL that there is a system where cows can choose when they are milked. The whole process is automated, customized for each cow, and has seen cows living 30% longer than those at farms that use traditional methods.
6EYjY TIL: Diem, the US-backed Vietnamese president, got 605,025 votes from 450,000 voters in Saigon in 1955
b6v77 TIL: A painting of Bea Arthur Naked sold for $1.9m
AD9Zo TIL after claiming that discs containing 25 million people’s bank details going missing in the post was a ‘palaver about nothing’, Jeremy Clarkson published his sort code and account number in The Sun. Someone then set up a £500 direct debit to Diabetes UK.