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TIL FedEx returned a volleyball that washed up after the Japanese tsunami

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D1Njj TIL Pancake Commercials Secretly Replace Syrup With Motor Oil Because It Doesn’t Absorb Into Pancakes.
Wk058 TIL that "Live Aid", the benefit concert held for the Ethiopian famine in 1985, (while well intended) actually gave ~£150 million to the Ethiopian Dictatorship. They used the money to mostly buy weapons from the Soviet Union and further fueled their civil war.
wLv66 TIL: Albuquerque held a funeral for Walter White to celebrate the series finale of Breaking Bad
6EPLZ TIL the town of Valmeyer, Illinois was so prone to flooding, that after a flood in 1993 the community decided to move the whole town two miles away onto a bluff to prevent further flooding.
69oR7 TIL that the artist Caravaggio's first name was Michelangelo