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TIL the first black woman to refuse her bus seat to a white person is still alive. Claudette Colvin.

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1D8P TIL that the Hindu religion states that science only offers a limited view of reality, but all it offers is right and correct, meaning that the religion by it’s nature cannot contradict science, leading to the the majority of even highly religious Hindus accepting evolution as fact.
MevVV Today I learned global company Unilever "makes and sells products under more than 1,000 brand names worldwide. Two billion people use them on any given day." Some of their brands include Dove, Klondike, Hellman's, Lipton, Magnum, Ben and Jerry's, Axe, Q-tips, St. Ives, Popsicle, and Vaseline.
OGnrX TIL: Australian and Japanese bus drivers strike against their employers by still driving their routes but refusing to collect passenger fees.
7Ljp TIL of the dramatic device “Chekhov’s Gun”. “Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
9wM0m TIL India is the 4th largest exporter of beef