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TIL about Skateistan, an organization that helps street kids in developing countries by teaching them how to skateboard.

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WX8d TIL Justice Clarence Thomas has only spoken one time in the last eight years during oral arguments in the Supreme Court. The one time he spoke was to crack a joke on Yale college.
pkn4 TIL of Paul Powell, an Illinois politician who was found dead in his hotel sweet residence in Springfield, IL with $800,000 in cash, 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios, and 2 cases of creamed corn.
GAnOE TIL a man claimed to steal a ghost from Ye Olde Man & Scythe in Bolton, England (a pub dating to 1251) and put it in a container on display at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art
XEwVD TIL of Pax Americana, a period of relative peace beginning around the middle of the 20th century, brought about by the dominant power of the United States. Similar time periods were Pax Romana and Pax Britannica.
xVYMD TIL that there is a satirical Danish short show series called Nazitübbies that tries to imagine what the show Teletubbies would have been like had Nazis won the WWII