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wbA1 TIL that Fred Phelps was excommunicated from the Westboro Baptist Church before his death for having a change of heart about his religious beliefs and acknowledging the ‘Equality House,’ a local LGBT support organization, as “good people.”
j6Y5R TIL that Rowlatt Act, an act to repress people's civil rights in India was passed by Sir Sidney Rowlatt in 1919. His son, Sir John Rowlatt became the architect of the Government of India Act, 1935, which is the skeleton on which the present day Indian Constitution was drafted
WkKr8 TIL about a Kiek in de Kök. An artillery tower in Tallinn, Estonia, built in 1475. It gained the name from the ability of tower occupants to see into kitchens of nearby houses.
Bgyeb TIL that until as recent as 2019 children in Vale de Salgueiro, northeast Portugal, were allowed to smoke cigarettes freely to celebrate Epiphany (January 6th)
7rr0r TIL that Hunter S. Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, daily did seven rounds of cocaine by 9 pm, accompanied by whiskey and weed, only to "start snorting cocaine seriously" then, an hour before dropping acid.