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TIL that despite taking in more than $500 million in donations, the American Red Cross only built six houses in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew

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1aJGX TIL many who survived the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945 were subsequently eaten by sharks as they bobbed in open waters for four days. Navy intelligence had ignored a message from the sub that had torpedoed it, thinking it was a trick to lure American rescue boats into an ambush.
j8oR TIL Brian wilson of the Beach Boys wrote the song “Good Vibrations” on LSD and considered it the “summation of his musical vision”
Mee1a TIL: The British used concentration camps to commit genocide in Kenya in the 1950's.
b9bMN TIL "Hollywood" became "Holywood" briefly, when Pope John Paul II made a visit to USA on September 1987.
loWeB TIL Marion County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation after one of its officers said he suspected someone had taken a bite out of a McChicken sandwich. They concluded that the officer forgot he took a bite of his sandwich.