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TIL in 1937, Marion Anderson gave a concert at Princeton but was denied lodging at a local segregated hotel. Einstein invited her to stay at his nearby home. They became friends, and she often stayed at his house whenever she visited Princeton

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D1oWp TIL Pluto was named by 11-year-old Venetia Burney. After her grandfather read about the discovery, Venetia, who enjoyed mythology, said the planet was in a region similar to the dark, remote underworld ruled by the Roman god Pluto. Her grandfather then contacted astronomers suggesting the name.
j6VYN TIL that John Tyler, the 10th U.S. President still has a living grandson, Harrison Tyler who is 94 yrs old.
ANd14 TIL that on June 1st 1533, Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Cranmer with St Edward’s Crown and not the usual consort’s crown. This rare honour sought to legitimise Anne as queen, along with her unborn child, expected to be the long-awaited male heir.
Lkp00 TIL of the Taman Shud case: a mysterious unidentified corpse of a man found on the beach in Australia in 1948, cleanly shaven with no identification marks but a piece of paper with the words “Tamam Shud,” meaning the end.
grdv9 TIL that there are still 120,000 survivng WW2 vets in the US