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TIL: Gary Sinese has a foundation to raise money for veterans. And when his son died in 2024, Gary found music he'd made and released it to sell & uses all of the proceeds for the foundation.

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4XnEX TIL of the "Daughter from California" syndrome, a situation in which a long-lost distant relative arrives at the hospital at which a dying elderly relative is being treated, and insists on aggressive measures to prolong the patient's life, or otherwise challenges the care the patient is being given.
grMo9 TIL that in the 1950s British developed a ten-kiloton nuclear land mine that used living chickens as a source of heat to keep their electronics working during winter.
b6oRN TIL that there were four Bronze Age wizards who wore huge conical Golden Hats.
M9K0 TIL Harry Houdini bought his own airplane and flew it in Australia just 6 years after the Wright brothers made their first flight.
78gNZ TIL that (as of 2022) 55.33% of Earth is Asian