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TIL Myley Cyrus mocked Sinead O'Connor for her appearance on SNL where she ripped up a picture of the pope in a protest against pedophilia in the church… Sinead O'Connor was forced into the Madgalene Asylum at age 15, run by the Catholic Church, it forced women into slavery and abuse.

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QJMGX TIL David Harbour, Hopper From Stranger Things & More Recently The Tide Guy, Tore His Achilles While Playing The Character Achilles In A Shakespeare In The Park Production.
erxn TIL drug overdoses from opiods increased 14% in 2014, killing 40,000 people. This is an increase of 137% since 2000. More people die from drug overdoses, says the CDC, than in road accidents: just under 33,000 people died in traffic accidents last year in 2014.
pVZN TIL: There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
8MkZ TIL that Band of Brothers was the most expensive miniseries ever with a production cost of $125 million until it’s sister series The Pacific was released in 2010.
XExyE TIL at US Supreme Court, the most junior associate justice is charged with menial tasks, such as answering the door of conference room, serving beverages and transmitting orders of the court to the clerk.