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TIL Eleanor Roosevelt held weekly press conferences and allowed female journalists to attend, forcing many news organizations to hire their first female reporters

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nWELB TIL that Apple Macintosh family is named after the McIntosh, which is the national apple of Canada.
dDkkB TIL the Ironclad, warships constructed from iron or steel which replaced the Ship of the Line, were first used in combat in 1862 during the US Civil War
e0JBn TIL At least half of all mammal species are burrowers.
W7XBo TIL after completing his short film Frankenweenie, Disney fired filmmaker Tim Burton for spending the company's resources on a film that would be too dark and scary for children to see. Decades later, he remade the film as a feature-length stop motion film, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
4RRb TIL during the Cuban missile crisis a Soviet Submarine came under attack from depth charges, the captain assumed WW3 had started and prepared to launch a nuclear weapon, his executive officer overruled him. It turned out the depth charges were training rounds being used to signal them to surface.