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TIL Rap is an acronym that means Rhythym and Poetry

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QJR9 TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, women in Afghanistan studied to be doctors - Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan… | Foreign Policy
kOOlg TIL Elvis Presley and his entourage would rent out roller skating rinks to throw $15,000 worth of fireworks at each other while wearing "air force jump-suits plus gloves, helmets, and goggles."
pEjb TIL that conditions seemed so bleak in America during the Great Depression that people in Cameroon sent $3.77 to New York for food relief
XjrR TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once knocked out a drunken gunman in a bar brawl, after the man called him ‘Four Eyes’
n0Xb TIL that Leonhard Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians to ever live, became totally blind yet still continued to publish. He was able to perform computations in his head and had a remarkable memory.