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TIL the oldest recipient of a doctorate degree was German born Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, who submitted her thesis in 1938 but wasn’t allowed to defend it under Nazi rule because her mother was Jewish. 77 years later she was finally given the chance to do so and obtained her PhD at the age of 102.

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98Ar TIL Lieutenant “Mad” Jack Churchill was the only soldier of WWII to kill a man with a longbow, and the first to go into battle with one in hundreds of years. He did this while also armed with a broadsword and bagpipes, which he played while killing enemies.
LQopp TIL that 75% of Canadian English-language TV shows are from the US. By contrast, the top ten TV shows in Quebec are all local productions. While French Canadians love watching American films dubbed in English, they prefer low-budget Quebec TV shows (téléromans) to big-budget American ones.
YZ67 TIL The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy. It was cheaper for the publishers to break it up into three books than printing one large book.
e0xn4 TIL Sigmund Freud never cured anyone. He promoted cocaine as a miracle drug capable of curing a wide range of diseases, and advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise
GAeR5 TIL after nearly twenty years in TV & film, Star Wars was John Williams first symphonic score, ushering a new age of symphonic film scoring for films and a new popular market for film scores sold separately on media