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8eg4K Til Kanno Sugako, an Anarcho Feminist, is the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.
DJNJ TIL Hayden Christensen successfully sued USA Network for stealing the idea for “Royal Pains”. Christensen pitched a similar show called “Housecalls”, and “was never informed that a similar program was in development”
8v98 TIL that in 1966 Carroll Shelby gave Bill Cosby a custom Cobra. It was so fast, Cosby couldn’t control it and gave it back. The next owner lost control and drove it off a cliff.
xV1K1 TIL That if Everest were in New York city, and you stood on top of it, you would be able to see Montreal.
l75Or TIL that in 1915 a three minute, long distance phone call cost the equivalent of $500 in today’s money