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TIL instead of providing famine relief, most of Live Aid's money went to funding an Ethiopian Dictator

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GYGQj TIL: In the 1920s, fashion-designer Coco Chanel accidentally got sunburnt while visiting the French Riviera, she returned home with a sun tan. Because of Coco’s status and the longing for her lifestyle by other members of society, tanned skin became seen as fashionable, healthy, and luxurious.
woPeY TIL Main Street in San Francisco is not a centrally located street, because it’s actually named for a person: 19th century businessman Charles Main
mw5o TIL London is riddled with dozens of ‘Plague Pits’ of the victims of the Bubonic Plague. Some pits are so thick with bodies it was impossible to drill through the mass of skeletal remains during construction of the Tube
0dN0y TIL that WS Simkins, the man who is credited with firing the first shot in the US Civil War, also had a severe foot fetish and went on to fund a five-year expedition to find the perfect foot, which ended in failure.
j6yjN TIL about Eternal Flame Falls in New York, a waterfall where natural gas leaks and ignites, creating a flame in the waterfall's base.