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ow9K TIL Mary MacKillop was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in 1871 after reporting a priest for sexually abusing children. 139 years later she was declared a saint by Pope Benedict XVI.
yQDNX TIL country singer Charley Pride played professional baseball in the Negro Leagues. At one point he and another player were traded to another team for a bus.
G485 TIL that, although Saint Patrick is famous for ridding Ireland of snakes, there was no evidence of there being snakes in Ireland in the first placs
AlLn TIL Al Capone earned $105m per year in the Prohibition era from alcohol and rackets. This today would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
5Ybo9 TIL that tamales were once as popular across America as hamburgers and hotdogs. And the height of their popularity was known as The Tamale Wars, as vendors at times were so competitive that it caused murders, riots, and shoot outs.