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E1480 TIL Hugh Jackman started his own coffee brand and foundation called "Laughing Man" after meeting a struggling coffee farmer in Ethiopia. His goal was to provide a marketplace for farmers in developing countries to sell their goods for a fair price. Jackman donates 100% of profits.
0wyBR TIL that bougainvillea flowers are not those (usually) pink parts of this beautiful plant
4knb6 TIL that despite generally being assumed to be and usually portrayed as an elderly woman, Miss Havisham from Great Expectations was only in her mid-30s at the beginning of the novel according to Charles Dickens' own notes.
6DPY TIL The first guy to win “Who Wants to be Millionnaire?” John Carpenter, used none of his lifelines until the final question, where he called his Dad and told him that he didn’t need any help on the final question and just wanted to let him know that he is about to win 1,000,000$
P15mV TIL that Robert Stack of Unsolved Mysteries fame was a world record holding skeet shooter. Here he is talking about it at the Olympics with Arthur Ashe