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TIL: The BBC almost didn't air the first report from the Belsen concentration camp as they couldn't believe its content. They only relented when journalist Richard Dimbleby threatened to resign if they didn't.

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9w5o6 TIL about "doublets" or "twinlings" - two words that have the same root, but different meanings due to branching paths. For example, the Latin word "clocca" (bell) became "cloak" through French (because it looks like wearing a cloth bell) and "clock" through Dutch (because of the bell chimes).
mkMy TIL the number of new law school students has dropped by 13.8% since 2010.
GYdP1 TIL In 1939 a 24 year old Orson Welles attempted to adapt Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' but had to cancel due to budget constraints. The studio asked him for a more conventional project. He suggested a B film of his, an exploration of a newspaper tycoon’s rise and downfall. He called it Citizen Kane.
nvX7 TIL that C. S. Lewis married a woman to remedy a deportation, honored his commitment when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, then fell in love with and re-married her while she was in the hospital. They lived as a married couple for three years before she passed away.
GvQ7 TIL that no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.