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TIL Oprah Winfrey’s first name was originally Orpah, but it was misspelled on her birth certificate.

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VMKE0 TIL that audience participation became an integral part of The Rocky Horror Picture Show after an audience member by the name of Louis Farese, Jr. began making snarky comments during a 1976 screening of the film.
NMm1 TIL that in Norway, income and wealth are public record, easily viewable online
oB0W8 TIL about Edith Sampson, who in 1950 became the first African-American to represent the U.S. at the United Nations. She later became the first Black U.S. representative to NATO and became the first Black woman to be elected judge in the state of Illinois.
DQ9XD TIL that large earrings (in both ears) were common and fashionable for men in Revolutionary France
KORX6 TIL of Takarazuka, an all-female musical theater in Japan where women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shōjo manga and Japanese folktales.