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TIL that the band Creed got sued by fans in 2003 because of how intoxicated the bands singer was during one of their concerts in the Chicago area

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oBkGo TIL The ladies of Havana was a group of woman that donated the equivalence 1 million dollars in jewelry to contribute to George Washington budget for his soldiers, this even was to be regarded as the 'bottom dollars' upon which the edifice of American independence was erected.
ndwP TIL that after WW2 the VA performed lobotomies on over 2,000 veterans as treatment for what we now recognize as signs of PTSD.
Gy0Q TIL that before Billboard took control of the Canadian singles chart in 2007, the #1 song was Nine Inch Nails’ “Survivalism” - the fifth rock-oriented #1 that year. The first #1 on the revamped Canadian Hot 100 was “Umbrella” by Rihanna. Not a single rock song has hit #1 since.
MeNVV TIL that in the aftermath of the Great Japan Earthquake of 1923, when fire broke out around the city of Tokyo, 44,000 people went to the river to escape the flames, only to be closed in by the flames on all sides. Almost all were then, in a single moment, incinerated by a 300ft tall fire tornado
A8Ya TIL a Texas man who was bitten on the hand by a coral snake bit the animal’s head off, then used its skin as a tourniquet–a move that saved his life. He kept the head as a keepsake.