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TIL Oprah went on a "The Life You Want" tour where she taught attendees to 'avoid situations that devalue your worth'. Tickets cost up to $999 and workers at the event were asked to work without pay.

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OorDY TIL Almond milk was a popular medieval food item
YmXP TIL Thomas Edison designed and built a helicopter powered by gun powder. It blew up, and took the factory with it.
vKgB TIL on January 27, 1992, then President George H. W. Bush said that he wanted the American family to be more like the Waltons than the Simpsons. Matt Groening responded by making a short segment in which Bart said, “Hey, we’re just like the Waltons. We’re praying for an end to the Depression, too.
69NOl TIL that King Christian X of Denmark regularly traveled without security during WW2 and spoke out against antisemitism while living under Nazi occupation, eventually rescuing 95% of Denmark’s Jewish population by relocating them to Sweden.
KabQ TIL of Perotine Guernsey, a pregnant woman burned as a heretic in 1556; during the burning she delivered her son, who was rescued from the fire only to be thrown back in by order of the magistrate.