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TIL: Scientists have found evidence indicating a huge underground reservoir that holds three times as much water as Earth’s Oceans

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v1R1r TIL that Dame Jocelyn Bell, a female astrophysicist who detected the first radio pulsar, acknowledged as one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the 20th century, was overlooked for a Nobel Prize in 1974 and was named one of the Women of the Year in 2015.
J7kB TIL A 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell pitched against the New York Yankees in 1931 and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
X0Ej6 TIL that after the tragic suicide of socialite Dorothy Hale, Frida Kahlo was commissioned by Hale's friend, Clare Booth Luce, to paint a likeness of Hale in remembrance. Instead of a beautiful portrait, however, Kahlo painted a sequence of Hale leaping to her death from her 16th story apartment.
lo0l1 TIL that TGI Fridays dropped the 'button flairs' from the waiting staffs' uniforms due to popularity of the movie Office Space in which Jennifer Aniston's character quits her job due to frustration with the flairs
grWeb TIL of Ken Adam, one of only three World War II Royal Air Force pilots to be born in Germany. After the war, he become a set designer and won two Oscars for Best Art Direction. He was knighted in 2003, and died in 2016.