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TIL: The first individual excommunication of a woman by name happened in 1906 - Maria Franciszka Kozłowska was a Polish nun who founded the heretical Mariavite movement.

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yQvNp TIL that the character of Lois Lane was based on pioneering investigative journalist Nellie Bly, known for her undercover exposé as an inmate of a mental institution in 1887. She also reported on Europe's Eastern Front during World War I and took a trip around the world in a record-breaking 72 days.
4kkON TIL: James Doohan, Scotty from Star Trek, landed on Juno Beach as a soldier in the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D-Day.
l7aXK TIL when King Ferdinand of Spain died in 1065, he divided his kingdom between his three sons. They immediately went to war. Within a few years, Sancho was murdered, García was imprisoned for life, and with his brothers out of the way, Alfonso VI lived a relatively easy life—reigning until age 69.
W74P9 TIL that only 48.5% of adults reported reading at least one book in the past year, down from 52.7% five years earlier and 54.6% ten years prior.
bmE7 TIL That clownfish are ‘sequential hermaphrodites’, meaning that if Finding Nemo were more accurate, Nemo’s father would’ve turned into his mother after the real mother died, Nemo would’ve become the new reproducing male, “and they would raise little incestuous Nemos together.”