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TIL of Alvin Straight, a man who traveled 240 miles on his John Deere to visit his dying brother. The story inspired David Lynch's film adaptation titled The Straight Story.

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M7ZRB TIL in 2012 every household in the Spanish town, Sodeto (250 people in 70 households), except one collectively entered the lottery El Gordo & ended up winning $130K each. The only person not included was Costis Mitsotakis cause the local association who sold tickets door-to-door forgot to go to his.
KYA4J TIL Saccharin(sweetener in Sweet'n Low) is derived from coal tar
wAAE TIL that chinese people used to think pandas were monsters.
rLK0 TIL that Mark Zuckerberg, named the number 1 philanthropist by Philanthropy magazine, donated $992.2 million to Planned Parenthood in 2013, equal to roughly 18 million shares of Facebook.
x6541 Today I learned that all the top 10 countries in the list of Cancer rates by country are occupied by developed countries only.