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TIL of Eleanor Jones, a librarian, who in 1916 created a chaperoned dormitory after noticing groups of vulnerable young women in search of Hollywood stardom were congregating in her library with no place to go. The Hollywood Studio Club eventually housed over 10,000 women - including Marilyn Monroe.

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w8l7 TIL that in 19th Century carnivals in USA, cigars were given as prizes. People who lost at a particular sideshow were told; “close, but no cigar”.
Y70Rv TIL hummingbirds, numbering about 340 species, are only found in the wild in North and South America. There are birds that drink nectar in Africa and Asia, and they are also small and colorful like hummingbirds, but they are called sunbirds.
x6b5b TIL That the functional sleeve buttons on suit jackets nowadays trace their origins back to military surgeons as they would unbutton their sleeves to perform surgery to avoid staining their sleeves when attending to patients. Hence the apt term “Surgeon Cuffs”.
D1KrY TIL The Show "Extreme Makeover" was cancelled because a woman committed suicide after she felt guilty that producers forced her to make negative comments about her sister, a participant on a canned episode of the show.
kONNm TIL that in 1939 the London zoo killed all it's venomous animals to avoid releasing dangerous animals into the city in the event that the zoo was bombed.