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TIL Bruce Willis bought 12,000 girl scout cookies from his daughter and sent them to troops in the middle east and sailors among the USS John F Kennedy

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ANw54 TIL the naming of Haumea, the first dwarf planet since Pluto, was held up for years due to a dispute over who should be credited with its discovery. Michael Brown first noticed the planet but Jose Luis Ortiz first announced it. Brown accused Ortiz of fraud while Ortiz accused Brown of manipulation.
omL TIL that there is a theory that our universe is nothing more than a holographic representation of the “Real” universe. That this “hologram” exists in the event horizon of a black hole.
ANDwo TIL of the many uses of Spanish Moss by humans dating back over 3000 years.
V4ZZ TIL The only known armed Nazi military operation on North American soil, in October of 1943, was installation of Weather Station Kurt by a German u-boat team. It was accidentally discovered in 1977.
mxxpO TIL: George Clooney sold a tequila company for $1 billion USD