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TIL: (former) Billionaire Chuck Feeney has given away over 99% of his 6.3 Billion dollars to help under privileged kids go to college. He is now worth $2 million dollars.

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MexWm TIL Jules Winfield, that character Samuel L. Jackson played in "Pulp Fictions," was never supposed to have jheri curls. That wig was brought to the set by mistake. Instead, Jules was supposed to have an afro.
AMvo TIL that there is a 500-year-old statue of a man eating a sack of babies in Bern, Switzerland — Nobody is sure why.
6RlJ TIL 84% of Vegetarians and Vegans in the U.S. Return to Meat
YrYr TIL During the campaign of 1920, President Warren G. Harding was accused of making up a word: “normalcy.” When asked if he instead meant “normality,” Harding responded “I have looked for ‘normality’ in my dictionary and I do not find it there. 'Normalcy’, however, I did find, and it is a good word.”
e0105 TIL there is a musical genre called Bardcore, which contains medieval-inspired covers of pop/rock songs. Some covers are instrumental, while others contain altered versions of original lyrics to make them sound "more authentically medieval". Enjoy!