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Today I learned that when the PBS Newshour lists their major financial contributors at the end of the program, the "Rosalind P. Walter" they thank is Rosie the Riveter.

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6EZ6m TIL Due to the absence of the fifth finger on the hands of cartoon characters, animation studios have managed to save several millions of dollars, since this decision cut the time for the frame-by-frame rendering of characters.
PYNaJ TIL of Reverend Isaac Simmons, an African-American man in Mississippi who was killed in 1944 by a white mob of 6 men who wanted his land of 270 acres Simmons and his family had owned for over 50 years. Simmons was dragged from his home, shot 3 times, and the mob cut his tongue out as well.
d8Rg8 TIL babies were not anesthetized during surgery until the early eighties
Vg58 TIL if a man is physically forced to sexually penetrate someone without consent (such as being pinned or held down, or by the use of violence) or threatened with physical harm, or when the victim was drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent IT IS NOT RAPE.(CDC Full report page 17)
d8pZj TIL in 1972, Shirley Chisholm ran for President, becoming the first African American woman to run a campaign for the Democratic Party.