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TIL back in 2016, a millionaire announced he would bury his car for afterlife, with intention of creating attention and controversy. he revealed the stunt is about raising awarness to organ donations. "People bury things that are much more valuable then cars and nobody seems to care".

6jpw TIL In 1939, the famous and notorious gangster, Al Capone donated two Japanese weeping cherry trees to the former Union Memorial Hospital in return for the excellent treatment and care he was offered and one of the trees still remains and blossoms outside the East 33rd Street entrance each spring.
l7DwK TIL: Despite it's status as a beloved piece in musical history today, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was met with mediocre reception upon debut, with many critics claiming it was haphazardly made, calling it "derivative", "stale", and "inexpressive."
16loX TIL That Lawrence Livermore Labs his the highest concentration of Phd's @ 1100 per square mile.
lorWa TIL about the Fast Inverse Square Root, an ingenious set of code that quickly calculated accurate square roots in Quake 3 using floating points and Newton's method. However, it is not exactly known who on the dev team implemented the code.
LQvDd TIL about Tiago Rech. In 2012, he gained fame as the sole fan supporting his local team, Santa Cruz-RS, at an away match. His dedication led to him being hired by the club. In 2014 he became the club president and in 2020 they won the FGF Cup and classified for Copa do Brasil for the first time.