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TIL the Rockefeller Center tree is donated to Habitat for Humanity every year since 2007 to help build a home

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arKA TIL the actor who played “Bane” Tom Hardy is a former drug and alcohol addict who now helps people that were once in his shoes.
6P7W TIL that Men have lost the DNA code that once made human penises spiny
R7eGw TIL about Beauty, a Bald Eagle whose beak was shot off by a hunter. Bird sanctuary workers 3D-printed a prosthetic beak for her until her actual beak grew back.
BrV7D TIL For 10 years, Emerich Juettner printed poorly made counterfeit $1 bills (Washington was spelled Wasihgton). He never used more than $1 at a time and never in the same place twice. He was caught only after a fire at his apartment. He was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and a $1 fine.
6EME7 TIL Ireland is the only Western European democracy to have signed a condolence book and visit the German ambassador following Hitler's death in 1945