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TIL Ed Sheeran granted a dying fans wish, which was to hear him sing, by singing to her minutes before she died

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YpD8W TIL in 1940, a woman attempted to assassinate Shirley Temple because she believed that Temple had stolen her daughter's soul. Temple was performing on stage as the woman took out a handgun and aimed, but security managed to stop her before she could shoot.
QNLQ9 TIL British flatpack furniture retailer MFI was so popular, it was stated that "one in three Sunday lunches was made in their kitchens and 60% of children were conceived in an MFI bedroom." The company went bankrupt in 2008.
grMY9 TIL Brazilians don't believe that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. Instead, they believe that Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumond, was the true inventor.
oByv8 TIL Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. He didn't make a single move. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm.