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TIL that River Phoenix's birth name is River Bottom

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e0yxb TIL When Cambridge graduate & visionary electronic composer Delia Derbyshire (who wrote the original Dr Who theme) applied for a position at Decca Records, she was told that they did not employ women in their recording studios.
70pP TIL in 1959, a segregationist school board shuttered its district rather than allow black students; whites took school vouchers and attended a local private academy (which did not integrate until 1986)
8ex4X TIL: Chess boxing is a sanctioned sport in which two competitors alternate between rounds of boxing and blitz chess until one wins by checkmate or knockout.
pYy9b TIL that the British are descended from a tribe of Spanish fishers
W0Bd TIL Ed McGivern was able to fire five shots at five yards into a silver dollar in 45/100ths of a second, shoot six hand-thrown clays, shoot a dime on the fly and that his Guinness world record for “The greatest rapid-fire feat” still stands (1932).