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TIL Fannie Flagg, author of the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, played Nurse Wilkins in the 1978 movie Grease

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nYJ9 TIL that 27 out of 48 States in the US allowed women to vote for President prior to the 19th ammendment (Federally mandated women’s suffrage)
Lk0Od TIL Indian businessman/billionaire Mukesh Ambani has invested $31 Billion to improve India's mobile and internet infrastructures since 2011, when his daughter, who was back home from Yale for holiday and tried to submit her coursework, told him that "the internet in our house sucks".
KvyB TIL in 1959 Soviet Premiere Nikita Khruschchev was denied a request to visit Disneyland during a trip to the United States. He became enraged and stated “But just now I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked ‘Why not? What is it? Do you have rocket-launching pads there?’ I do not know.”
DQG1e TIL Grant Fuhr holds the NHL record for most all-time points (all assists) for a goaltender as he played with Gretzky for a decade.
vPNgx TIL that because of its strategic importance and impregnable position during the Napoleonic Wars, the Diamond Rock, off the coast of Martinique, was considered a warship by the British Admiralty, which conferred on it the title of HMS Diamond Rock, turning the rock into a stone frigate.