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TIL that when J.R.R. Tolkien's son Michael signed up for the British army, he listed his father's occupation as "Wizard"

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a8e80 TIL that several tufts of George Washington's hair are preserved at Mount Vernan inside various frames, paper, and jewelry. (He wore his natural hair long, and refrained from using a wig, which was fashionable at the time.)
nWkjd TIL In 2020, Chinese and Indian soldiers fought a "Medieval" battle in the Himalayan mountains. With firearms being barred by dual agreement, soldiers fought for hours using sticks, stones, and other makeshift weapons. According to reports, four Chinese soldiers and twenty Indian soldiers died.
lDJK TIL a Japanese company invented a robot that sits on your back and feeds you tomatoes while you run
v1R1r TIL that Dame Jocelyn Bell, a female astrophysicist who detected the first radio pulsar, acknowledged as one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the 20th century, was overlooked for a Nobel Prize in 1974 and was named one of the Women of the Year in 2015.
9wBYr TIL the color purple doesn’t exist and is considered an illusion