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TIL Hulu removed a Golden Girls episode in 2020 after a scene where Blanche and Rose, wearing mud masks, joke, “We’re not black,” during a plot about Dorothy’s son marrying a Black woman. Though not blackface, the scene was misinterpreted. The episode was restored in 2023 after a review of context.

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LkZ10 TIL cryptanalyst Elizebeth Friedman broke 4,000 codes during WWII and brought down a Nazi spy ring by cracking an early version of the Enigma machine with pen and paper
DYde TIL that a librarian found smallpox scabs stored inside a 19th century medical book. In the 1800s scabs from infected people would be inserted into healthy people as a means of vaccination. These scabs have the potential to shed light on The evolution of the small pox vaccine used in the Us today.
JYWxV TIL of the Lake Taal snake, a species of marine snake that evolved to adapt to a freshwater environment. It is found in a single Phillipine lake that was cut off from the sea less than 500 years ago. This means that the snake evolved into a new species in just a few centuries.
m115E TIL the Indy 500 isn't held in Indianapolis but rather in the town of Speedway, an enclave of Indianapolis laid out in 1912 by the owners of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
po9N TIL students from TU Delft developed an Ambulance Drone equipped with medical supplies, camera and a speaker. The operator will then instruct the user through the speaker to use the equipment and save the person’s life, this supposedly would increase survival rates from 8% to 80%.