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TIL Rita Moreno had supporting speaking/singing roles in the movies "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) and "The King & I" (1956), years before winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "West Side Story" (1961)

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yQlnv TIL of Adamites, an early Christian sect that worshipped naked. Some of their beliefs were holy nudism, a rejection of marriage, and an endorsement of lawlessness as their actions were "neither good nor evil". They believed they were embodying the innocence of Adam in Genesis.
4XaDR TIL: Yosemite has two main valleys, Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy, but HH is flooded by a dam/reservoir built in 1923. John Muir and other environmentalists fought to block the dam and said of the valley’s spectacular beauty: “no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.”
epAoE TIL Dutch sailors were responsible for the extinction of the dodo, They hunted the dodo for food and sport, introduced invasive predators like rats and cats that ate the dodo eggs and chicks, and destroyed the dodo’s habitat by deforestation and farming.
GADeG TIL there is a town in Alaska called Whittier where nearly the entire population lives in one building along with all of the town's public facilities.
OjVe TIL | Black Friday Is Plumbers’ Busiest Day of the Year (Brown Friday)