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8eEGX [TIL] Janet Cooke returned her Pulitzer prize after world came to know that the news article she wrote for The Washington Post was fictional.
rRZ9w TIL about brothel candles, which burned for precisely 7 minutes and were heavily used during Victorian times. The individual would pay the fee, light the candle, and when the candle burned out, the session was over.
VMA8G TIL Cristeta Cromerford has been the Executive Chef of the White House since 2005. She is the first woman and first person of Asian descent to hold the post.
4XxrN TIL of Herostratus, an Ancient Greek arsonist who burned down the Temple of Artemis in the hope that he would be remembered forever. His city not only executed him, but forbade his name ever being spoken again in the hopes of preventing this, obviously unsuccessfully
Wk4Zd TIL that in November of 1999, Kevin Smith attended a protest against his own movie: "Dogma." He even made it onto the local news, when the on-the-scene reporter asked him (not knowing it it was him) his thoughts on the movie. He responded: "I don't know, but I've been told, 'not good.'"