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TIL the US government invested $90,000 promoting Vidalia onions as part of a promotion with Shrek (with tax payer money)

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mkNy TIL that there is a British man named Sir Nicholas Winston who organized the rescue of 669 Jews from Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. He is still alive today at 105 years old and was dubbed the “British Schindler.”
YYYA TIL A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface.
xVKO7 TIL a tree was planted in memory of Beatle George Harrison in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park — and died after a beetle infestation.
kOyv7 TIL that a man bet his friend that he could make any house famous. To accomplish this, he wrote thousands of letters requesting services at 54 Berners Street. So many people showed up on the day that parts of London were shut down. The man (who watched it unfold from across the street) won the bet.
E10A7 TIL the cause of death of the individuals who jumped out of the WTC on 9/11 are ruled as homicides due to blunt trauma (as opposed to suicides)