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TIL that the archangel Gabriel is patron saint of stamp collectors, radio broadcasters, telecommunication workers, and postal workers.

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aw4ZJ TIL 9 year old Rachel Beckwith started a $300 fundraiser for clean water. She asked friends and family to donate $9 instead of B-day presents. She only raised $220, and sadly died in a car accident soon after. Her story spread, her $220 grew to $1.2 million, providing clean water to 37,770 people.
ovXR TIL that Eric Harris, one of the Columbine shooters, made his own levels in Doom that have their own fanclubs and are still downloaded and played today.
AN9p7 TIL the 1999 hit song She's So High was written and performed by the son of one of the founders of the Guess Who and BTO
X07lP TIL: The Constitution made no provision for replacing Vice Presidents who died or departed before finishing their terms. As a result, the office has been vacant for almost 38 years in the nation’s history.
wEVE TIL Otto Von Bismarck predicted the start of World war I with quote “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”