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TIL Dolly Parton gives over 3 million children a year books, through her charitable Dolly Parton Imagination Library program.

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wol7o TIL in1940, Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, created a time capsule intended to preserve items for 6,000 years.Called the "Crypt of Civilization," it contains recordings of everyday sounds, copies of the Bible, scientific instruments, and more. It's scheduled to be opened in the year 8113.
OoQJ4 TIL Jonah Hill was hospitalized while filming Wolf of Wall Street from snorting too much fake cocaine
VMlw4 TIL: billboards featuring naked breasts caused 517 traffic accidents in 1 day.
B4mL TIL: McDonald’s coffee is higher rated than Starbuck’s Coffee
VVd8 TIL that in 1990 the US Ambassador to Iraq was threatened with execution if he was harbouring Americans he responded with a press conference; where he wore a noose while declaring “If the choice is to allow American citizens to be taken hostage or to be executed, I will bring my own fucking rope"