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TIL About Mike Hayes, The Kid Who Crowdfunded His College Education — In 1987 by collecting a penny from 2.8 million people.

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Nm4b TIL after an Indian king was insulted for his ethnicity by an employee while visiting a Rolls-Royce showroom in London he ordered that 6 luxury cars be bought and sent back to India to be used as garbage collectors throughout the city, damaging Rolls-Royce’s reputation and profits.
wLXQ1 TIL a critical mass of uranium assembled itself in what is now Gabon, forming the first and only natural nuclear reactor in history. It fissioned for hundreds of thousands of years before fizzling out.
VyD4 TIL When guitarist Slash wrote “Sweet Child O’ Mine” he had an initial disdain for the song due to its roots as a simple “string skipping” exercise and considered it a joke at the time.
omno TIL While filming The Breakfast Club, Judd Nelson (Bender) would stay in character off camera, and would torment the other cast members, particularly Claire.
M7r9B TIL that the Gregorian Calendar is used in all but 4 countries: Ethiopia, Nepal, Iran, and Afghanistan.