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TIL Brigham Young's 35th Child Was a Drag Queen

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Z8Blp TIL that when Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to win an Academy Award (for her performance in "Gone with the Wind") in 1940, she was seated at a segregated table at the side of the room
oB0mL TIL that Cynethryth, wife of Mercian King Offa, is the only Anglo-Saxon queen known to have coins issued in her name.
woAdJ TIL that a carpenter got an MIT PhD. After his sailboat almost sank during a storm, Lyman Page decided to go to graduate school in physics. He went to MIT unannounced, got an unpaid night job in a lab, and worked as a carpenter. The job turned into a PhD, and Page is now a Princeton professor.
xV5Bb TIL that the suicide rate of boys ages 15-19 grew by 30 percent from 2007 to 2015. Academic issues, depression, and lack of self worth were among biggest causes of life cut short.
D1vgV TIL the TV movie 'Without Warning' presented as if it were an actual breaking news about meteor fragments crashing into the Earth created an uproar. Channels ABC, Fox, & NBC were flooded with complaints, asking them why they were not covering this event at the same time that CBS was covering it.