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TIL As First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt allowed only female journalists at her press conferences, ensuring that newspapers would have to hire women.

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NR6N TIL of the only non-human to ask an existential question (What colour am I ?) - an African grey parrot.
6JMw TIL a German U-boat mysteriously disappeared in 1945 and the sole survivor of its crew, who missed the voyage due to illness, found out about the fate of his shipmates in 1999 by watching a NOVA episode about the submarine
QNZ1L TIL Debbie Reynolds was not a dancer when she made Singin' in the Rain (1952). Gene Kelly apparently insulted her for lacking dance experience. when Fred Astaire was in the studio, he found her crying under a piano. On hearing what had happened, Astaire volunteered to help her with her dancing.
X0Mwj TIL Mercury was still in use for hat making in the U.S. until the 1940's.
o9OE TIL a man was only sentenced to five years probation for killing the man who kidnapped and molested his 11-year old son.