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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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ZJYD TIL When Clint Malarchuks carotid artery was severed during a game, the actual sight caused 11 fans to faint, 2 suffered heart attacks, and 3 players to vomit on the ice.
woL7 TIL that Henry Kissinger’s senior thesis was 383 pages. After he published it, Harvard created the “Kissinger rule,” which restricted the length of all future undergraduate papers to 150 pages.
Brojr TIL An amusement park in Germany shut down one of its rides after a video showed it resembled a Nazi swastika
YpWg7 TIL that two straight men got married to avoid paying higher taxes
d6kd TIL kung fu can refer to any skill achieved through hard work and practice, not necessarily martial arts