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TIL Joan Alexander, the original radio voice of Lois Lane, was fired, then showed up in disguise at the audition for her replacement. She got the part.

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xVlY7 TIL a child is 16 times safer riding to school in a school bus than in a family vehicle
dw6K TIL there was a ‘Little Ice Age’ in the 1810s, that ended in a year without summer. It was dubbed “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death”
QJkkL TIL of Drapetomania, a pseudo-scientific mental illness that suggested slaves were mentally ill for running away from their slave owners, and was supposedly caused by slave owners being too friendly with slaves, and "treating them as equals".
mx9Xy TIL your brain/eyes will generate a "light show" (known as the Prisoner's Cinema) if kept in darkness for long periods of time. The phenomenon is reported by prisoners confined to dark cells and by others kept in darkness as well as; truck drivers, pilots and practitioners of intense meditation.
8apN8 TIL Amelia Earhart was one of the first celebrities to found her own line of clothing and luggage, and was a major icon of women's fashion in the 1930s.