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TIL there’s a conspiracy that the Beatles never existed.

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GA9QN TIL about Rabbi Sy Dresner, a advisor and friend to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1964, at a conference of rabbis , Dresner received an urgent telegram for assistance of clergy from MLK to help protest in Florida. 17 Rabbis got on a bus immediately and went down and led prayers during a swim-in
NBw1 TIL that Irena Sendler, a nurse who secretly rescued 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, and was viciously beaten by the Gestapo for her actions, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007, the year it was awarded to Al Gore.
nWXoY TIL that Ian Fleming got the name James Bond from an ornithologist, whose works he admired. Fleming chose the name Bond to sound blunt and everyday.
l7o55 TIL the term 'computer' used to mean humans who performed tedious, repetitive calculations by hand. Many of whom were women and some became the early programmers in a time when men refused to code because it was seen as "woman's work"
MePYK TIL that the common cultivated strawberry does not occur in nature. It is a hybrid of the Virginia wild strawberry and the Chilean beach strawberry, invented in France in the 18th century.