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TIL an Oscar Award give to Margaret O'Brien was stolen by her housekeeper and never recovered. Years later, two men at a flea auction paid $500 for it and returned it to her.

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mxvXv TIL that despite taking in more than $500 million in donations, the American Red Cross only built six houses in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew
m1WJP TIL the children's song "Alouette" is about pulling apart a small songbird piece by piece
j6wJp TIL Pride FC was heavily linked with the yakuza and a result ended up dissolving in 2007
E1K57 TIL of the Schulze-Boysens, a married couple who were members of the German high society. They were also anti-Nazi activists who formed a resistance group known as the Red Orchestra. They were caught and executed in 1942 but the Red Orchestra continued throughout the war as an espionage network.
6aVl TIL Wealthy Californian James Lick (1796 – 1896) founded many San Francisco charitable institutions including the Lick Old Ladies Home (in 1884)