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TIL earlier this year, Eminem's Marshall Mathers Foundation donated over 400 meals of "Mom's Spaghetti" to Detroit area frontline hospital workers.

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oRlAR TIL, the Pan-European Picnic was a peaceful demonstration in 1989 where the border between Austria and Hungary was open for 3 hours and It was the largest refugee movement since the Berlin Wall was built. It started the chain reaction of the Warsaw Pact dissolving and the end of the Cold War.
84wZ TIL living near coal-fired power stations exposes people to higher radiation doses than living near nuclear plants
VvYm TIL that in 1631, London’s Baker Book House rewrote the 10 Commandments with a missing word in the seventh directive declaring, “Thou shalt commit adultery.”
wogW6 TIL that German scientist August Kekulé discovered the seemingly-impossible chemical structure of benzene after having a dream about a group of snakes swallowing their tails
epm0E TIL the UK is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned the capability to launch satellites into space. The Black Arrow rocket launched the Prospero satellite into orbit from Australia in Oct 1971. The project was cancelled that same year due to cost.