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TIL that the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the first of its kind in the US, was formed in 1961 by a group of Holocaust survivors who met during ESL classes at Hollywood High School. Their personal artifacts, photographs, and memories became the museum’s initial primary collection.

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VBJjp TIL On January 31, 1938, about 12,000 pecan shellers—mostly Hispanic women—walked out of their jobs to protest poor working conditions and low pay in what came to be known as the Pecan Shellers Strike in San Antonio, Texas. The strike lasted 3 months.
MeWEA TIL buildings in Hong Kong have huge square gaps (AKA "Dragon Gates") carved out of them in order to let these mythical flying creatures pass freely through structures as they migrate back and forth between the mountains and the ocean
A7nw TIL that the solution of the Monty Hall problem (that asks to pick one of three doors to win a car, the picked door remains closed and the third one opens, then asks if you want to switch or not) is so counterintuitive that mathematician Paul Erdos was unconvinced until he saw a simulation of it
vbX4 TIL That a mother of a cheerleader hired a hitman to murder another girl’s mom so her own daughter had a better chance of making the squad
GY005 TIL Lee Marvin was not only devilishly handsome and a badass in the movies but also in real life. Marvin joined the illustrious US Marine Corps at age 18 and fought in WW2 at the battle of Saipan, being hit by machine gun fire and a snipers bullet as well.