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TIL when the 2013 government shutdown threatened the closing down of a national program giving medical attention and meals to children, John D. Arnold donated $10 million of his own money to keep it afloat

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Lk1KP TIL Since February 23, 2016 The Bank of Canada Has No Gold Reserves & Is The Only G7 Nation That Does Not Hold At Least 100 Tonnes of Gold in its Official Reserves
e0xZn TIL that Max Headroom, the iconic 1980’s digital talking head, was not actually digital, but a real actor wearing prosthetics and makeup. The studio heads wanted to keep it secret at the time, and wouldn’t even allow the artists to be submitted for makeup awards.
oBk0W TIL of the London Beer flood of 1814, where a 22 foot vat of Porter beer burst, flooding the streets and killing 8 people.
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