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TIL Sinéad O’Connor's was a victim of the Catholic Church's Magdalene Laundries

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NjY8 TIL the citizens of Nova Scotia, Canada gladly donate their largest Christmas tree to Boston every year as a token of their gratitude, since Boston was one of the first cities to help them after the big Halifax Explosion.
oB67o TIL in 1997 a Danish woman visiting New York City was arrested and strip-searched for leaving her baby in a stroller outside a restaurant while she and the baby's father dined inside, a common practice in Denmark. She later sued the city and was awarded $66,000.
Rj88 TIL that on the 10 August, 1901, two academics believe they accidentally time traveled back to 1792 and one of the pair believe that she saw Marie Antoinette.
aw5lb TIL Mary Tyler Moore helped to make animal shelters no-kill in NYC by co-founding an adopt-a-thon organization called Broadway Barks
Z8QWQ TIL George Michael wrote his hit single “Careless Whisper” at 17 years old out of sheer boredom while riding the bus to work. Despite its success, he was not happy with the song and in a 2009 interview with the Big Issue, he said he was “a bit puzzled why it made such an impression on people”.