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TIL Butterfly McQueen, one of the stars of “Gone with the Wind,” was unable to attend the film’s premiere because it was held in a whites-only theater

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R5NO9 TIL a monkey named Ramu was arrested in India for disrupting the peace between Muslim and Hindu communities. He was released 5 years later when wildlife activists learned of his situation.
1aQ9d TIL that the first computer programmers were women
jNBVp TIL In 1974 Larry Flynt purchased pictures of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis nude for $18,000 and published them in the August 1975 issue of Hustler. That issue made him an overnight millionaire.
neXko TIL that the band Joy Division is named after the group of jewish inmates in concentration camps, that had to fulfill sexual demands of the guards
loJr TIL Mozart composed a song called “Lick Me in the Ass”.