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TIL about John Arnold van Hengel, a grassroots activist and entrepreneur who, in 1967, founded St. Mary's Food Bank, the world's first food bank in Phoenix, Arizona.

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nerEr TIL - Airline Engine Manufacturers occasionally test how well their engines can withstand the impact of a flock of birds. To do this, they use what is called a "Chicken Gun"; where they fire dead chickens into a running engine through a large diameter cannon.
m1nkp TIL Since their invention, cars have killed an estimated 60–80 million people, injured at least 2 billion
ENo0 TIL When Britain abolished slavery they simply bought up all the slaves and freed them. It cost a third of the entire national budget, around £100 billion in today’s money.
6Dk7 TIL In the late 1800s, a baboon was officially employed as a railroad signalman. He was paid in money and beer and never made a mistake.
ANWm4 TIL an originator of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Since then the Nobel Foundation has not rescinded the award, and in fact there is still an article active from the foundation defending the award.