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TIL the original translation of “mortgage” means “death pledge”

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lPEK TIL a woman was stabbed in a Kansas convenience store, and as she lay dying, 5 people physically stepped over her dying body, with one even stopping to take a picture.
8avlV TIL the only non-military dog to be awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery, was a collie named Sheila. In 1944 she tracked down 4 injured US airmen on a mountain during a blizzard, after their B-17 crashed. She led locals to their location, who evacuated them before the bombs detonated shorty after.
v1VNR TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician and the only person to have solved a Clay Millennium Prize problem for which he declined the $1 million prize. Grigori Perelman also declined mathematics' most prestigious award, the Fields Medal.
KOY7G TIL AT&T forced Apple to block Skype calls on the iPhone between 2007-2009 because it competed with their own service
e08mg TIL that your heart pumps enough blood per year to fill an Olympic size swimming pool( about 500,000 gallons)