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Today I learned that the last Rosie the Riveter was involuntarily laid off from her job at the age of 95 in 2014.

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AN99x TIL about Dr. Chaos, a computer hacker who was caught storing drums of cyanide under Chicago's L-line for unknown reasons after going on the run for causing 28 power failures throughout Wisconsin
v10D4 TIL the Toyi-toyi was a dance used in protests in South Africa, especially against apartheid, where crowds would jump from one foot to the other
E1MEP TIL that Isaac Newton described lockdown as one of the most productive times in his life, during which he developed theories on optics, calculus, the laws of motion and gravity.
gr6vy Today I learned that eggplant is considered a berry
VVrZ TIL that in 1998 a woman called Amy Bradley vanished from a cruise ship. Years later, photos emerged that suggested she may have been kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. Amy Bradley has never been found.