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TIL about a firefighter who confessed to deliberately setting 30 fires so that he could earn overtime pay

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GXd4 TIL “House of the Rising Sun” was originally written from the perspective of a woman. The “House” most likely referred to a brothel where she went to work off the gambling debts of her “sweetheart”
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