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TIL Aphids are born pregnant.

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v109x TIL that Hattie McDaniel, the first black woman to win an Oscar (and whose birthday is today), was forced to sit separated from her white co-stars at the 1940 Academy Awards
d8098 TIL of Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California. When the gun failed, she turned to the Secret Service and said, "It didn't go off. Can you believe it?"
rRAd TIL that Madidi National Park in Bolivia may be most biologically diverse place on earth
wL1yP TIL of John II of France, who was captured by the English, in the Hundred Years War, and held hostage in London. An exchange of hostages occurred, with his son, Louis, taking his place. When John II was informed that Louis had escaped from captivity, he voluntarily returned to England as a hostage.
GArjQ TIL that television was not introduced in South Africa until 1976 because the apartheid government viewed English programming as a threat to the Afrikaans language.