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TIL that the mother of Ernest Hemingway (author, soldier, hunter, boxer, drinker, famous manly man) often dressed young Ernest and his older sister in matching pink flowery dresses (and similar outfits) to fulfill her obsessive desire to instead be mother to a pair of twin girls.

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1amlD TIL that at the age of 31, Charlie Munger was broke, divorced, and had just buried his 9-year-old son who died from leukemia. Today, Munger is Warren Buffet's "right-hand man," a billionaire and says "Self-pity is not going to improve the situation...however bad it is, just fix it as best you can."
dYPr TIL JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jaime Dimon, paid a $9 billion fine to prevent a whistle-blower from testifying in one of the biggest white-collar crimes in American History.
nel97 TIL That A Young Bill Gates Hacked Into The Schools Scheduling Software To Be Placed In All Girl Classes.
J1DQm TIL Robert Schneider, leader of popular indie band The Apples in Stereo, and producer of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea dropped out of college without taking math. He later took up math for fun, going as far as getting his PHD from Emory. He's now left music completely to teach.
XJXr TIL 71 years ago today Polish Jews in in the Warsaw ghetto rose up in armed resistance against their Nazis oppressors.