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TIL the 1991 movie Hook was originally meant to be a musical

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XEmYj TIL when 18-year-old Lady Gaga was studying at NYU, her classmates made a Facebook group called "Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous" where they bullied her and called her an "attention-whore". She dropped out after a year to pursue her music career full time.
QJjv6 TIL Mae Jemison, the first woman of colour to go into space, suffered from a fear of heights before embarking on the astronaut training that eventually led her to the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992
RNRw TIL the United States Postal Service effectively “owns” the inside of your mailbox, and can issue fines for unauthorized use of it - including the personal delivery of typically mailed items.
LkYy9 TIL about the Bard Prison Initiative, a program providing college education to inmates across various prisons in NY. Nationally, ~80% of inmates will return to prison within 9 years of release. BPI graduates have a recidivism rate of only 4%.
Y7LQ7 TIL James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Lee, became an anathema to many Confederates post-war due to his support for the Republican Party as well as critical comments he wrote about Lee's wartime performance