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TIL Madonna's older brother Anthony lived to age 66, was estranged from family, and lived under a bridge at one point

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0wmYN TIL "Typhoid Mary" vigorously protested her quarantine. When she was first captured in 1907, she fled over back fences and barricaded herself with barrels. Her second capture came after she hid in a friend’s home on Corona Avenue and was finally captured by means of a ladder to the second story.
deEj TIL The Florida Public Service Commission gave Cape Canaveral the 321 area code as an homage to their launching spacecrafts. 3…2…1… Blastoff!
Lkdw9 TIL that Cambridge Analytica still fully exists, operates every day, and simply changed their name to Emerdata.
R8P4 TIL police are using a medical diagnosis not recognized by the AMA or APA, to explain deaths while in custody.
BaVW TIL that Guy Fawkes, the guy many celebrate and honour as a rebel to the state, was in fact aiming an assassination in the name of religion to restore Catholicism to Britain, not simply rebelling against government power.