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TIL Ruth Coker Burks, "AIDS angel" of Arkansas, who accepted 65k in GoFundMe donations, may have exaggerated her story

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v1mZK TIL of Masaniello, an ordinary fisherman in Naples, who in 1647, organized a revolt against the government in a single day over a newly imposed fruit tax, and was declared by the people and Duke himself as “captain-general” of Naples... only to be assassinated 9 days later.
4XGN6 TIL the most lethal air accident in Australian history was almost 60 years ago and only killed 29 people.
N71VQ TIL in February 1978, amateur adventurer Dave Voelker walked across a frozen Lake Erie on foot, departing the coast near Sandusky, Ohio and arriving the next evening in Colchester, Ontario, a distance of 28 miles.
kOvE7 TIL of 'Kodokushi' or lonely death : A Japanese phenomenon of people dying and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time.
neXZr TIL the 1993 film Philadelphia, the story of a man who was discriminated against due to having AIDS, was itself subject of a lawsuit. The family of the late Geoffrey Bowers sued, claiming that the film heavily borrowed from the story of his own lawsuit without giving him compensation or credit.