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TIL a scientist found two snowflakes identical.

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nWw6B TIL that during SNL’s first season, it was just called “Saturday Night” because there was another show airing with the “Saturday Night Live” name. That’s why they say “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” at the beginning of every episode.
XEQB6 TIL the International Sweethearts of Rhythm was an all-female, multiracial band that toured in the Jim Crow South in the 1930s and ’40s, breaking both gender and racial barriers, with white bandmates wearing blackface to avoid charges of race-mixing.
epxn5 TIL: Zheng Yi, was a powerful pirate lord who married a floating brothel Madame to combine his might and her information web. This led to the foundation of the Red Flag Fleet, one of the most powerful fleets in China. He then died, and his wife married their stepson and became a female pirate lord.
VBvY8 TIL that Oceanic feeling, coined by Romain Rolland in a 1927 letter to Sigmund Freud, describes a sensation of eternity and oneness with the world, seen as the source of religious energy.
wo8WM TIL: Confederate General Patrick Cleburne proposed recruiting slaves to fight for them and granting their freedom as a reward, arguing this would strengthen the confederacy. The idea was quickly shot down after facing strong opposition from other confederate leaders.