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VBlm8 TIL IBM delivered computers to Nazi Germany
J7kB TIL A 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell pitched against the New York Yankees in 1931 and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
awB8L TIL Carrie Fisher voiced Angela, Peter Griffin's Boss in Family Guy. They let go of her character once she passed.
ZWOv TIL that Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation. However, since she was only 15 years old (and pregnant), the NAACP decided their secretary, Rosa Parks, would better represent the movement as the ideal segregation protester who would spark the bus boycotts.
MBLV TIL: When asked about atheists Pope Francis replied “They are our valued allies in the commitment to defending human dignity, in building a peaceful coexistence between peoples and in safeguarding and caring for creation.”