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TIL that the bird lady from Central Park in Home Alone 2 (Brenda Fricker) has an academy award for best supporting actress for the movie My Left Foot

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Zp9dY TIL of Dr. Farrokhroo Parsa, physician, women's right's activist, and Pahlavi Iran's first female cabinet minister. She was executed for "prostitution" after the Islamic revolution: "I am prepared to receive death with open arms rather than live in shame by being forced to be veiled."
YrAd TIL that Finland celebrates “National Sleepy Head Day”, where the last person to in the house to wake up is thrown into water by the early risers.
n0Z9 TIL that there are about 1.6 million Brazilians of Japanese descent.
04nR TIL in 1906 Mark Twain, lonely and missing his wife and daughters, formed a club of young girls called the Angelfish Club who met regularly at his house to play cards.
PAGV TIL that Nixon said “I am not a crook” at Disney World