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TIL A woman became the youngest Grandma at 23 years old. She had a daughter when she was 11 and a grandson 12 years later.

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e0lMg TIL in 1940 75% of Americans dreamt almost always in black and white, and today over 12% of people still dream in only black and white.
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awllN TIL when John Lennon performed "Woman Is the N****r of the World" on the Dick Cavett Show, Cavett was told to apologise for the song's content before the performance. The show received about 600 letters of complaint - but all criticized Cavett's apology, not the song's lyrics.
rNO9o TIL: To "protect the truth," a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. Her archives grew to about 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in her home and apartments she rented to store them. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed to digitize the volumes.
BEyk TIL Dr Stephen Hawking has joined the international boycott against Israel and refuses to meet with Israeli academics there.