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TIL About Medals4Mettle, which re-ribbons your old medals and awards them to kids fighting diseases like cancer.

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R5xW4 TIL Pete Buttigieg and Colin Jost were born on the same day (Jan 19, 1982) and both majored in History and Literature at Harvard
Y70BW TIL From 1908 until 1940, Sears Roebuck sold over 70,000 ready build kit houses through their mail order catalogue, ranging in price from $452 to $5,972
NX4P8 TIL that water tasting is actually a profession and they are called water sommeliers
D1Joe TIL that elephants like to paint and play music. Some paintings have been compared to abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and have sold for $25,000. Other elephants have been taught to play in an orchestra and reportedly have a strong sense of rhythm and enjoy improvisation.
6lVm TIL That Day light saving has no effect on the state’s energy consumption. And a study in Indiana showed that DST actually increased energy demand, presumably because of an increased need for air conditioning.