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TIL - Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher donated $1 million to help Syrian children

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5VOLP TIL that when Peyton Manning was 5, his mother took him to a Saints game, as his father Archie was the quarterback. Due to Archie's poor performance, the crowd started booing him. Peyton's mother was worried that seeing his father booed would upset Peyton, only to see that he was also booing Archie.
OMJ4 TIL a POW named Charlie Cavendish told Swiss inspectors of the awful conditions that they were living in. He knew that the SS would kill him for doing so, but continued anyway to save his fellow men, which he did. Cavendish was missing at roll call the next day and was never seen again.
J0o8 TIL Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. President for whom English was a second language (He spoke Dutch). He was also the first President to be born in America, (as opposed to British Colonial soil)
DxaY TIL that the koala population of Australia is at serious risk of extinction, in part due to over half the population being infected with chlamydia
KYAMR TIL that when Jack Webb, most known as Sergeant Joe Friday in the TV & radio police procedural Dragnet, died. Friday’s badge number in the LAPD (714) was retired and, Webb was buried with full police honors.