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TIL Eleanor Roosevelt held her own press conferences where only female journalists were allowed. This ensured they kept their jobs during Depression-era layoffs, earning a steady income & professional status.

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VvJk TIL Consumption of Alcohol Helps People Decontaminate themselves from Radiation.
4PMR TIL of Rhythm 0, a six-hour work by performance artist Marina Abramović. The audience was invited to do whatever they wished to and/or with the artist, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table for this purpose including a rose, feather, scalpel, metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet.
OGJEe TIL There is a Chinese poem entitled "Shī-shì shí shī shǐ", with 92 words - all of which are "shi". The poem becomes comprehensible because Chinese is a tonal language - where the same word can be pronounced with many different tones. Supposedly, the poem is more sensible in Cantonese than Mandarin
rNBY1 TIL: (‴) are the symbol for the line unit; similarily how (′) meats feet and (″) means inch.
PYRKO TIL Kanō Jigorō, creator of judo, also served as the Japanese representative to many Olympics and had a pivotal role in securing Japan's bid for the 1940 Olympics. He was indifferent towards the inclusion of judo, however, as it was not "mere sport" but rather "a principle of life, art and science."