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TIL Hitler saved 1 Jew from the Holocaust: a doctor who treated his mother for cancer

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awPaZ TIL that while women weren't allowed to participate in the ancient Olympic Games, they actually had their own event called the Heraia which consisted of the same elements the Olympic Games started out with; a foot race and religious festivities
ANbvo TIL the busiest transit hub in the western hemisphere is located below Madison square garden. (In the 2020s it also expanded to the James Farley building.)
7rE6Z TIL that Edgar Rice Burrows, escaped the Chicago flu epidemic of 1891, because he spent half a year at his brother's ranch in Idaho.
kJv85 TIL that two days before singer Nina Simone died, she learned that she would be awarded an honorary degree by the Curtis Institute of Music, the music school that had refused to admit her as a student at the beginning of her career.
LQMdr TIL there was a man who worked as a barber for 96 years. Beginning at age 12 in 1923, he charged $0.25 for his first haircut and his final haircut, given in 2019 at the age of 108, was $19.