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TIL that James Smith, husband of Moira, an NYPD officer who died saving people in the towers on 9/11 and was awarded “Woman Of The Year” by Glamour, returned the award after seeing it be given to Caitlyn Jenner, stating “Is this the best you could do?”

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YpV5B TIL the man who served me a beer in his bar in NYC, one of the two times I’ve been there, was a boxing legend who just passed. I got to hear some great stories and never knew how amazing he was. But I remembered him and our talk for three decades. RIP Jimmy Glenn
6xKZ TIL…..There is a 3.4 acre indoor Biosphere in Oracle, Arizona that researchers lived in for 2 years and 20 months to see what living on Mars would be like. There are 5 biome areas; a rainforest, ocean, wetlands, savannah grassland, fog desert, and agricultural system. As well as a human habitat.
Zp8G4 TIL Cleopatra was the only Ptolemaic ruler to learn to read, write, and converse in Egyptian. She could also speak 7 languages.
kODm1 TIL that more than 50% of the oxygen produced on earth is from photosynthesizers in the ocean, such as Prochlorococcus and phytoplankton.
aB7b TIL that three of the actors who played Nazis on the WWII sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” were German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany. Two of them spent time in concentration camps, and another French Jewish actor also spent time in a camp.