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TIL Lisa Lampanelli once counted 44 protestors from the Westboro Baptist Church at her show so she donated $44,000 to a gay rights charity in their name

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rNk0M TIL the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975, and the song was recorded one month later
Z8NPG TIL, by Washington's first inauguration, he only had a single remaining tooth to which awkward dentures were attached. As he aged, people mistook his increasing lack of conversation as him being distant and unfriendly when, in reality, he was simply trying to keep his dentures from falling out
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