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TIL an Alabama school tried to ban ‘The Diary of A Young Girl’ by Anne Frank in 1983 because, according to the board’s records, it was “a real downer.”

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OQA6 TIL that Martine Rothblatt made millions by inventing satellite radio. When her daughter was diagnosed w/ pulmonary hypertension, she earned a PhD in bioethics & formed a biotech company that licensed drugs to treat her daughter’s illness from other companies, making them much more widely available
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X1EP TIL A man raised his arm for 38 years without EVER putting it down.