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LkEmQ TIL Bebop jazz (very fast & difficult to play) evolved partially because many black people felt that white people were simply copying their jazz - some believed the new style would be too hard to be copied and not to white peoples' taste
1vj4 TIL A British Man rescued 669 children destine for death camps from Nazis, arranged for them to have homes and smuggled them to Britain. Today is his 105th birthday
gr0Kb TIL that the creator of the sportswear company Adidas (Adolf Dassler) was a member of the Nazi Party.
E1K57 TIL of the Schulze-Boysens, a married couple who were members of the German high society. They were also anti-Nazi activists who formed a resistance group known as the Red Orchestra. They were caught and executed in 1942 but the Red Orchestra continued throughout the war as an espionage network.
BreKK TIL The world's first television commercial aired on July 1, 1941was only 10 seconds long, and was an advertisement for Bulova watches. It cost the company a total of $9.