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TIL Administrative Professionals Day is on the Wednesday of the last full week of April. It was started in 1952 by the National Secretaries Association.

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v1nnj TIL that Black actor Trevor Laird was scripted to appear in a sex scene with a white girl in the film Quadrophenia, but the producers demanded he be excluded from it in case the film was shown in the southern US or South Africa.
m1aNY TIL that Vincent van Gogh painted his iconic Irises while staying at an “insane” asylum, inspired by the vibrant flowers he observed in the courtyard from his window.
GEQg TIL at 13, Molly Kelly an Aboriginal girl was forcibly removed from her family and sent to a government institution to become a domestic servant. She escaped and walked 1000 miles home across the outback. From 1905-1971 Australian authorities forcibly removed thousands of indigenous children
xmm7 TIL A trading company went bankrupt after a software engineer forgot to set a single flag on a server, resulting in a loss of 460 million dollars in 45 minutes.
BrwJD TIL Siamese cats have their coloration due to the enzyme tyrosinase being mutated to be ineffective at body temperature but active in the tails feet ears and face where it’s cooler and can produce the dark pigment.