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TIL lungs are the only organ that can float in water

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JW98 TIL The day after Robin Williams’s suicide, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline fielded the greatest number of calls in its history.
gME8b TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.
nemlB TIL Zach Galifianakis pays the rent of an 87-year-old lady who used to live at the laundromat he used before he was famous and he sometimes takes her to his film premieres.
rR7ww TIL that there's a legal difference between a non-profit organization and not-for-profit organization in the US. For example, The income that nonprofit and not-for-profit organizations generate is used differently.
QN8LX TIL that in 2014, Diren Dede, a foreign exchange student from Hamburg, Germany, was shot and killed after he had went into the garage of Markus Kaarma, a landowner who was facing burglaries so frequently that he had set up a camera and left the garage door open to try to catch the thief.