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TIL that the Vice-President's wife is referred to as the "Second Lady," abbreviated as SLOTUS

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78k9P TIL that the The Redbury New York Hotel in Manhattan operated as a women's-only hotel for 95 years. Their clientele included literary women, students, a YWCA manager, painters, advertisers, and accountants. The hotel was sold in 1997 and converted to a co-ed tourist hotel after being "underused."
6eoW TIL that Apple discontinued use of the word “laptop” in its product manuals and technology because of the potential risk caused from using your laptop… on your lap.
Oo16g TIL about an old film from 1915 called Filibus, Though Italian reviews at the time of its release were negative, Filibus has been well received by later writers and film historians, who have highlighted the film's pioneering use of lesbian attraction, genderfluidity , and science fiction motifs.
5YL68 TIL the author of Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, helped develop several Nickelodeon shows such as "Little Bear" and "Clarissa Explains It All". She was also head writer for Scholastic's "Clifford's Puppy Days".
OoBmX NASA put 12 astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972. With the death Friday of Apollo 16’s John Young, only five of those astronauts are still alive, and they range in age from 82 to 87. No human being has been beyond low Earth orbit since the end of the Apollo program.