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TIL of Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist from Malta who reported on government corruption and money-laundering. She died in a car bomb attack close to her home on 16 October 2017, and her last words were "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate."

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Wrw8 TIL of Dickey Chapelle, The first female reporter and correspondent killed in action. Dickey was at Iwo Jima, Okinawa during ww2 and covered the Hungarian revolution of 1956; She traveled with the troops and learned to jump with paratroopers. She was killed during the Vietnam war.
9w0w6 TIL that Ray Bradbury wrote "The Halloween Tree" (1972) as a result of being disappointed after watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" - due to what he believed was the television special's lackluster depiction of Halloween
WLl9 TIL that PC is the gaming platform of choice in China…because consoles have been banned since early 2000s
8WRb TIL the man who finished behind Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics was also black: He was Jackie Robinson’s brother.
eKGL TIL the phrase “I’ll be a monkey’s uncle” originally comes from people expressing anti-darwinian sentiments.