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TIL that Princess Leia’s iconic double-bun hairstyle was inspired by ‘soldaderas’ - Mexican revolutionary rebel fighters from the turn of the 20th century

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m14pM TIL after centuries of use in America there was an international effort to ban sign language. Educators from Europe wanted to force the deaf to try to focus on oral communication instead. Linguists rejected American Sign Language as a language until William Stokoe proved it had grammar in the 1960s.
x6bYw TIL that Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, who had removed his own appendix, was the first surgeon to bring music into the operating room
ZpPLG TIL Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his album "DAMN."
5Vd8k TIL fission nuclear reactors can form naturally in the Earth’s crust. In 1972, evidence of a 100kW, two-billion year old reactor was found in Oklo, Gabon.
grjG7 TIL a SIGNIFICANT portion of Chumbawamba’s discography is sociopolitical folk music