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TIL: There’s a company that takes donations to purchase student loans at pennies on the dollar just to wipe them out and has wiped $32m to date.

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VXEG TIL that Darth Vader’s mask was inspired by an old Swiss Army helmet.
R77R8 TIL that eels have TWO JAWS (just like Xenomorphs from the Alien movies)
4X1aa TIL Llamas can be used as guards against coyote attacks on sheep herds. Studies have proven that just one guard llama is an effective protector and can even kill the attacking coyotes.
e0Ywk TIL that English cricket great Denis Compton was renowned for his absent-mindedness. He once arrived at a match without his kitbag, so he used an antique bat from the stadium's museum; and during a major celebration in honour of his 70th birthday, his mother rang, telling him that he was only 69
laK5 TIL the mysterious “Umbrella Man” (aka Louie Steven Witt) of the JFK assassination said, “I think if the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up.”