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TIL NHL player Jerome Iginla donates $2000 to charity for every goal he scores. He’s scored over 500 in his career.

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0P9N TIL Einstein mediated a hostage situation when, during the WWII aftermath, Berlin University students took several professors captive.
Jwgj TIL there’s a term for the moments when a word suddenly doesn’t make sense to you and just feels like sounds that don’t have meaning. It’s called Semantic Satiation.
N79K8 TIL Prince William will be the first English king (>50% English ancestry) of the UK/England since 1066. Normandies to Plantagenets were French, Tudors were Welsh, Stuarts were Scots, Hanovers to Windsors were Germans, QE2 is half-Scottish, and Charles is half-Greek.
BrPor TIL in 2002, a Kenyan tribe sent the U.S. 14 cows to aid in the aftermath of 9/11. Cows are their livelihood and they sent every cow they could spare to help strangers overseas. It all started with Kimeli Naiyomah, a young member of a Masai tribe.
7rMYL TIL about Jim Cummings, the voice of my childhood. He has over 400 voice credits appearing in Winnie the Pooh, Phineas and Ferb, The Powerpuff Girls, Pinky and the Brain, Gargoyles, Biker Mice from Mars, Animaniacs, 2 Stupid Dogs, and Batman: The Animated Series to name a few.