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TIL The Poh Teck Tung Foundation is a rescue foundation founded in Thailand famously known for rescuing road accident victims and managing unclaimed corpses with proper burials.

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Z8Rya TIL that the first female leader was Hatshepsut, Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh of Egypt. She reigned between 1473 and 1458 B.C. Her name means “foremost of noblewomen.” Her rule was peaceful and she was able to launch a building program that would see the construction of a great temple at Luxor.
JZQ4 TIL that it costs $30,000 to get on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A-Listers like Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Clint Eastwood, and Al Pacino don’t have a star because they didn’t pay.
e0Mdb TIL Freddie Oversteegen, her sister, and friend Hannie Schaft lured German soldiers during WW2 to the woods under the pretense of a romantic overture and then killed them
9Yg6G TIL Alaska residents receive an annual dividend check funded from investment earnings of statewide mineral royalties.
yVMw TIL that the pilot of the only enemy aircraft to ever bomb the lower 48 was invited back to the town he tried to burn and made an honorary citizen.