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TIL the title Ms. was introduced by the Feminist movement in the 1960’s by women who felt that they should be known for something other than who they were married to

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ddXE TIL Italy only became a unified country in 1861 by consolidating several smaller states under one centralized government.
6EXMX TIL when actor Raymond Massey was divorced from wife Adrianne Allen they used, respectively, husband and wife divorce lawyers Dorothy Whitney and William Dwight Whitney. Raymond then married his lawyer Dorothy and Adrianne married her lawyer William
v4jK TIL an autistic kindergartner, his mother, and his grandmother were handcuffed at a school. The child was taken to a psych ward and the grandmother had a rib broken, all because of a 5 y/o tantrum that wasn’t handled properly by the school.
rK0e TIL Charlie Chaplin was born 4 days before Hitler and his character, Tramp, has the same mustache as him. This and being named a Jew and placed on a hitlist by Nazis inspired his film, The Great Dictator, where in the last speech he is actually talking to the audience as himself, not a character
KYD7J TIL in 1997, rock band Cheap Trick re-recorded their second LP "In Color," with Steve Albini (of Nirvana's "In Utero" and Big Black fame) producing, seeking a heavier and rawer style. It was never released.