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8wJ8 TIL that Orson Wells’ famous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds (which aired 75 years ago today) actually caused almost none of the public panic for which it became famous; newspapers’ over-reporting of the incident was actually an attempt to discredit radio as a news source
OKp6 TIL Although a staunch and faithful Christian, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King was an early advocate for Gay Rights. King even fought for the Civil Rights Act to include LGBT citizens as a protected class
1aOjP TIL in 2007 after Johnny Depp's daughter recovered from a serious E. Coli infection, Depp dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow to spend 4 hours in the hospital reading stories to sick children, and donated £1 million to that hospital.
GYW91 TIL that in the 1908 London Olympics, the Russian team arrived 12 days late and missed their most favoured event because they were still following the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar.
kJ04B TIL in 1949, António Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for the psychosurgery procedure leucotomy, ​better known today as the infamous lobotomy.