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TIL 90% of Icelandic women went on strike both professionally and domestically in 1975. This led to the passage of equal pay legislation the following year.

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xVRb1 TIL In certain circumstances, hot water can freeze faster than cold water. This phenomenon was first observed by a 16-year old boy and has been named after him: the Mpemba effect.
laK5 TIL the mysterious “Umbrella Man” (aka Louie Steven Witt) of the JFK assassination said, “I think if the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up.”
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pk5G TIL that a Polish patriot allowed himself to be captured by the nazis in WW2 to be sent to Auschwitz. Inside the camp, he formed a underground resistance group that did a variety of things such as morale and passing on Intel to the outside. First detailed report of the holocaust. He soon escaped.
ne8QW TIL that the teddy bear was named after Teddy Roosevelt, former President of the United States, after he refused to shoot a bear during a 1902 hunting trip.