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TIL: Lefties Aren’t Allowed to Play Polo

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D1OPY TIL Emmy Noether, one of the most important mathematicians of all time, was denied a salary for 16 years because German universities objected to her being a women.
78ELL TIL that grocery store apples were bread to be extra sweet, and that wild apples are bitter, small and acidic
1aLGr TIL that in ancient Greece, piracy was widely regarded as an entirely honourable way of making a living, with no disgrace - and even some glory - attached to those who chose piracy to be the main source of their livelihood
KY8b9 TIL that Persian and Farsi are just different names for the same language
mrKP TIL Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, has long maintained his iconic work is not about censorship, but ‘useless’ television destroying literature. He has even walked out of a UCLA lecture after students insisted his book was about censorship.