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TIL Robot is Czech for serf labor and Asimov was the first to use the word Robotics

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X8pD TIL that Rosa Parks was sitting in the colored section of the bus during the infamous incident in Montgomery; she was asked to vacate her seat, in the front row of the colored section, because the white portion of the bus was filled.
LKDr TIL the lyrics to “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” are from the point of view of a girl asking her date to go watch baseball instead of a vaudeville show.
7a6X TIL that Gandalf hits his head by accident in The Fellowship of the Ring, in Bag End, but Ian Mckellen played it off so well that Peter Jackson kept it in the movie! (#41 in link)
R56j TIL that someone had a baby three months premature– the baby was declared stillborn. . The mother, eager to at least see the baby 12 hours after the operation– found the baby alive. . nailed in a coffin, almost frozen inside the morgue.
v1YpD TIL that Richard Stanley the film director once escaped from war torn Afghanistan with his wounded cameraman after he took the LSD he had with him.. He said the LSD saved his life as he could see in the dark and believed he could smell the land mines....