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TIL permanent magnets can levitate, no superconductivity required

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VMA1Z TIL After Michael Jackson's hair caught fire in 1984 he founded a burn center. “I wanted to do something because I was so moved by the other burn patients I met...” He suffered painful burns, but hospital staff remember him spending much of his time visiting and comforting other patients
rRKR0 TIL that 99% of Jewish children in Poland died in the Holocaust. Only 5,000 were left out of a pre-war population of 1 million.
x4a7 TIL Butterfly McQueen, one of the stars of “Gone with the Wind,” was unable to attend the film’s premiere because it was held in a whites-only theater
jNjja TIL, kids growing up in Canada played "The Yukon Trail" instead of the Oregon Trail in the US.
Bg6KD TIL photographer Carol Highsmith donated thousands of her photos to the Library of Congress for public use. Surprisingly, Getty Images claimed copyright on these photos and even accused her of infringement for using one of her own photos on her site.