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TIL The Largest Non Profit Organization In The World Has Over 5000 Full Time Volunteers and Over 11 Million Part Time Volunteers Worldwide Is Called "The Isha Foundation"

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MJj7 TIL Dominos Pizza stopped using its “Avoid The Noid” mascot because a 22 yr old paranoid schizophrenic named Kenneth Noid–thinking he was the real Noid–took 2 employees hostage with a .357 magnum revolver.
rNEBw TIL about Italo Balbo, a high ranking Italian fascist who despised Germans and strongly criticized racial laws, a strong opponent of Italy's decision to join the conflict on Germany's side, his plane was shot down by friendly fire over Libya in 1940, two weeks after Italy joined the war.
awYxJ TIL, smokers are exposed to some of the highest levels of radiation on earth from the radioactive traces of Polonium and Lead in tobacco.
Oox9e TIL: There is a second Jewish territory in the world in addition to Israel: the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, a small part of Russia in the far south-east near Japan/China/North Korea
KYmYR TIL about MSGT John Chapman, and the controversial decisions leading up, and following his posthumous award of the MOH. Particularly the decisions made by the navy seals and the MOH museum. One of the seals he saved was also awarded the medal, serves on the museum board, and has his own exhibit.