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TIL that Celine Dion once refused an award (Anglophone Artist of the Year)

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dDpRd TIL the BBC received over 47,000 complaints about its plans to screen "Jerry Springer: The Opera" in 2005. It was the most complaints ever received about a British television broadcast, and was attributed to an orchestrated campaign by Christian groups
e84J TIL the United Church of Christ sued North Carolina in 2014, claiming that the state was infringing on their freedom of religion by banning them from being legally allowed to officiate same-sex marriages, which the UCC already allowed.
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