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TIL The Westboro Baptist Church is funded by the US government paying legal fees to them.

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Lkx0Q TIL that the "boy [who] stood on the burning deck" was Giocante Casabianca - a brave little boy on on board the burning L'Orient, who refused to leave his post without his father's orders. He didn't know that his father was already dead.
WkYkX TIL Burger King reportedly paid $1 million to get its mascot in Floyd Mayweather’s entourage
8wMK TIL When The Sex Pistols were inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame, they refused to go to the ceremony and called the museum a piss stain.
gy77 TIL that according to “Solomon Cuve”(also called the “Crash Risk Curve”) drivers traveling 5 mph (8 km/h) above the average speed of traffic are statistically the least likely to be involved in a crash while crash risk increases dramatically when traveling below the average speed.
j46p TIL It wasn’t until 1992 that the Vatican admitted that Galileo was right