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TIL- In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history.

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OGave TIL about the Fire Lily, a South-African flower that only blooms after wildfire.
Z8mAv TIL that Harper Lee’s friends gave her a full year’s salary for Christmas in 1956 so that she would be able to take a year off from work to write. Lee used that time to write “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which has since sold over 40 million copies.
R5Nr7 TIL that Lucille Ball convinced Merv Griffin to hire Alex Trebek to host the revival of Jeopardy in 1984 when original host Art Fleming, a friend of Trebek’s, declined to return. Trebek holds the Guinness World Records for most episodes of a game show hosted, hosted the show until his death in 2020.
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