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TIL actor John Lithgow’s childhood babysitter was Coretta Scott, the future future civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King.

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KOZAB TIL producer George Young suggested AC/DC add bagpipes to "It's a Long Way to the Top" after learning that singer Bon Scott had been in a pipe band. Scott agreed despite having never played the bagpipes before; he had actually been the pipe band's drummer.
9YvbD TIL that on 24th October 1975, 90% of women in Iceland went on strike and took to the streets, refusing to work, cook, and look after children. The strike was called "Women's Day Off", and helped put Iceland at the forefront of the fight for gender equality. Men came to know it as "The Long Friday".
Kxw9 TIL that Gmail was launched on April 1,2004 and was widely assumed to be an April Fools’ Day prank.They offered 1GB free storage in 2004 while other webmail services provided between 5MB - 50MB.
X01OP TIL that the names "Arctic" and "Antarctic" comes from the Greek arktos, “bear,” because the constellation Ursa Major, “the greater she-bear” (also known as the Big Dipper), is always visible in the northern polar sky. “Antarctic,” then, means “opposite the bear.”
VoXZ TIL Octopi are the only conscious invertebrates and have cognitive thinking abilites, individual emotions and personalities, and even form relationships with humans.