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TIL of Hind al-Husseini, a Palestinian woman who rescued 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre. She converted her grandfather's mansion into an orphanage to house them, which became a school providing education to orphans and other children from Palestinian towns and villages.

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YpemP TIL Chris Columbus once successfully intimidated Jamaican locals by correctly predicting a total lunar eclipse. He said that if they stopped providing for him and his crew, God would get angry and make the moon disappear. When the eclipse actually occurred, they begged for God's forgiveness.
d8R4Z TIL that there was a VHS format that could record in 1080i, in 1993.
aw0aJ TIL that the Joy of Cooking was self-published in 1931. Irma Rombauer spent $3000 to print 3000 copies. Today you would have to be lucky to get just one of those copies for $3000.
VMaAG TIL a black student dropped out of theater school when his teacher told him casting him in roles that weren't explicitly black would "color" his play. Feeling guilty the teacher introduce him to a talent agent. That student was Joe Morton who went on land parts in Terminator 2 and Justice League.
Pl9J TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.