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TIL Miss Piggy has never appeared in an episode of Sesame Street

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Y7gpx TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say “My Scottish maid could do better!” So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified tens of thousands of stars, & discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula
BWGD TIL that after major symphony orchestras switched to holding blind auditions, the acceptance (hiring) of female musicians went up as much as 55%
ejkk TIL Jeremiah Denton, an American POW in North Vietnam, during a televised press conference in which he was forced to participate, repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse code spelling out “T-O-R-T-U-R-E”
p8RJG TIL that Four out of five members of Congress continued to drink alcohol during Prohibition
ARaB TIL In U.S. today, 87% Approve of Black-White Marriage, vs. 4% in 1958.