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XEoaR TIL in 2011 when Lisa Lampanelli learned the Westboro Baptist Church planned to protest one of her shows. She promised to donate $1000 for every WBC member that showed up. Ultimately 44 members showed up, and she donated $50,000 to charity with the memo stating “Donation made possible by the WBC”
QJmA9 TIL that the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history occurred on June 8, 1917 when fire broke out in the Speculator Mine in Butte, Montana. 168 miners were killed due to the unsafe conditions, spurring one of the first successful unionizations of workers in the US.
9wMbQ TIL of Aphantasia, a condition where a person is unable to picture things in their mind
b9mY7 TIL in 2013, Australian blogger Belle Gibson claimed to have beaten brain cancer using 'natural remedies' — selling a cookbook to cancer patients with all her 'secrets'. It was later revealed she never even had cancer, and was fined $410,000 by the Australian government for her deceptive practices.
nWoMP TIL the difference between dinner and supper. Dinner was the largest meal of the day - historically, lunch was called dinner. However, dinner slowly migrated later in the day until it overlapped with supper.