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TIL Mobster Al Capone Ran a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression and served free meals to thousands of unemployed people every day.

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ADDD7 TIL that the Temple of Artemis was burned by a man named Herostratus who sought to live in infamy. Despite his name becoming illegal to say, to deny him that infamy, it eventually become a metonym “Herostratic fame” meaning someone who commits an act to gain notoriety and infamy.
NO1b TIL that in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, residents of Sendai received 10-30 seconds and Tokyo 60 seconds warning from Japan’s Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system before the major seismic waves hit. Alerts pushed to cellphones, TV broadcasts and web pages around the country.
VBAO0 TIL that originally the Barbie movie was supposed to come out in 2018, with Amy Schumer as Barbie.
lNwB TIL in 1999 a man with Intractable hiccups was cured after having sex with his wife
VMMnk TIL the extension ladder was invented by 16 year old Henry Quackenbush who later went on to invent the modern nutcracker.