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TIL Only 6 Celebrities have granted more than 200 Wishes for the Make-A-Wish foundation; John Cena, Jeff Gordan, Hulk Hogan, Justin Bieber, Dale Earndheart Jr. , and Michael Jordan. The leader of the pack, John Cena(450), says he fully fully intends on making it to 1000.

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nW5nB TIL the officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater left his post to go drinking at the same bar where John Wilkes Booth was building up the courage to shoot the President.
Yjgv TIL scientists studied a parrot for 30 years and found he had the intelligence of a five-year-old human. He had a vocabulary of 150 words and could ask for a banana. If he was offered a nut instead, he would stare in silence, ask for the banana again, or take the nut and throw it at the researcher.
9Y8jM TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
e0XG6 TIL a review found 80% of Chinese clinical drug trials fraudulent. They found examples of fabricated and altered data with adverse effects withheld. In one example, the validity of data was questioned when they discovered a researcher responsible for recording it wasn't employed at the time.
kjD1 TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web”