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TIL A Utah teacher was fired for writing an educational blog about “homophones”

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M7KBB TIL that after The Exorcist, Linda Blair starred in a TV movie about teen alcoholism with then-emerging talent Mark Hamill and Bill Daniels. Directed by Richard Donner a year before The Omen was released.
vWG4 TIL that in 2010, the Kanye West Foundation received $572,383 but didn’t spend a single penny on charitable causes. In all 4 years it ran, the KWF only gave $7,695 in actual grants and donations (0.56% of it’s expenses).
b6Poj TIL: “Laika” is the name of husky-like breeds of dogs in Russian … but the famous Space Dog—whose name was Laika—was just a mutt, not one of those breeds.
mxQxo TIL that 9/11 is the anniversary of the 1973 coup d'état in Chile led by General Pinochet, who executed thousands and interned and tortured tens of thousands for 17 years. While the U.S. may not have directly backed the coup, it appeared to condone it and worked with Pinochet afterwards.
m1LYE TIL of Black Joe's Tavern, a bar opened in 1795 by a freed slave and his wife in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It was described as a "racially integrated drinking place for hard drinking fisherman.