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N750P TIL Serena Williams was disqualified from the 2009 U.S. Open tournament for threatening a line judge.
w9W6 TIL of Jeanette Rankin, the first female member of congress and the only person to vote “Nay” to go to war with Japan in ‘41. Many requested she change her vote but she refused. After the vote, an angry mob followed her from the Capitol building, forcing her to take refuge in a telephone booth.
M66B TIL the accent used by Tom Hanks in ‘Forrest Gump’ was actually the real-life accent of the boy that played young Forrest.
KOwDa TIL: There are 50,000 undocumented Irish in US
R5oGa TIL: There was a Shogun: The Musical. Written by Clavell, it was performed on Broadway for two months until a drop in tourism from The Persian Gulf War.