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TIL: Kleenex was invented as a cotton substitute for use by doctors during WWI

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D1gjJ TIL a man living near The Gap cliffs in Sydney, Australia helped save over 160 people trying to commit suicide by just talking with them and inviting them into his home for tea over a 45 year time period.
5VMgn TIL that, in the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War, a group of West Virginia coal miners fought local and federal authorities at the Battle of Blair mountain in 1921 and were even bombed with gas and gunpowder.
A5nn TIL Brandon Routh, who starred in Superman Returns, and Jason Momoa, who will play Aquaman in upcoming DC films, are from the same small Iowa town, went to the same highschool, and played on the soccer team together
GQWG TIL Nicolas Cage was also offered the role of Neo in The Matrix, but turned it down saying that he was not mature enough as an actor.
l7XVB TIL That Princess Peach also goes by the name Princess Toadstool in the Super Mario Bros discourse