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TIL that sanitary pads can take 500-800 years to decompose in landfills.

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Lk1Dp TIL that Keanu Reeves runs a private charitable foundation to fund cancer research and children’s hospitals. In 2009, he told Ladies Home Journal: "I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."
DV8P TIL after discovering a bug in video poker machines, two men used it in order to win half a million dollars. When sued on federal hacking charges, their lawyer argued, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” They kept all the money.
Egbyx TIL that the current president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russell Nelson, is over 100 years old. He was appointed in 2018 at age 94.
N8aJ TIL King Leonidas of Sparta was 60 years old at the Battle of Thermopylae.
6KLm TIL A neon light was left on and covered over in a downtown LA restaurant, then found again still working after 77 years.