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TIL Dave Thomas (Wendy’s) went back to high school in 1993 to get his GED because he was worried that his success as a high school dropout might convince other teenagers to quit school.

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xoB TIL Koko the Gorilla named a kitten All Ball. All Ball died in an accident and Koko signed she was sad and cried alone when no one was around, but there is an audio recording.
x6mNo TIL of Baarle-Hertog, a Belgian municipality consisting of 22 separate enclaves, all wholly surrounded by Netherlands. Some of the larger enclaves themselves contain Dutch enclaves.
kJOgB TIL the oldest surviving wooden structure was built in 607 AD.
mBjR TIL of Thomas Mott Osborne, who stamped out corruption as warden of Sing Sing prison. Framed for having sex with prisoners by a crooked banker, after his acquittal the inmates held a carnival in his honour
6E88X TIL about The Gospel of Wealth, an 1889 article by Andrew Carnegie that became a guiding philosophy for philanthropy as a moral obligation for the wealthy to spend their fortunes helping others that became a trend and expected of the very successful. He said: "He who dies rich, dies disgraced."