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TIL Chance The Rapper donated over $2 million to Chicago Public Schools. Working with 20 principals and his non-profit SocialWorks, he helped the schools gain $100,000 over 3 years, and selected the schools based on budgetary and individual needs.

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p8Q1p TIL The symbol "℞", sometimes transliterated as "Rx", is recorded in 16th century manuscripts as an abbreviation of the late Latin instruction recipe, meaning 'take thou'. Originally abbreviated Rc, the later convention of using a slash to indicate abbreviation resulted in the modern common symbol.
9447 TIL people built entire houses just to piss their neighbours off.
X0oBQ TIL that the longest lightning bolt ever recorded was 440 miles (708 km) long, nearly stretching from one end of Brazil to the other. The lightning bolt occurred on October 31, 2018, and broke the previous record of a 199-mile (321 km) lightning bolt recorded in the US state of Oklahoma in 2007.
Ae4o TIL given a choice between alcohol-soaked food and normal food, male fruit flies that have recently been sexually-rejected by females will consume four times more alcohol-soaked food than the males that mated successfully.
JY46V TIL in 1964 an icy runway caused a taxiing B-58 bomber to flop over and topple onto its fuel tanks. This ignited 14,000 gallons of blended gasoline and kerosene and barbecued the bomber’s nuclear payload…including a 9-megaton bomb powerful enough to flash fry any exposed human within 20 miles.