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TIL about anti-apartheid activist Ruth First. A Jewish South African communist who was assassinated in 1982 by a parcel bomb built by South African police while exiled in Mozambique. She crossed paths with Nelson Mandela after he involvement in the founding of the Federation of Progressive Students

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p8mnQ TIL that San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is not named for its color but for its location on the Golden Gate Strait. Its unusual reddish-orange color was a radical choice in the 1930s. It matched primer painted on some of the steel.
Z87xa TIL that during the making of “Pulp Fiction,” Vincent Vega’s 1964 Chevelle Malibu, which actually belonged to Tarantino, was stolen during production. In 2013, he was reunited with it when a sheriff spotted two men stripping it in the Oakland area, ran the VIN, and found it belonged to the director.
ep4Bg TIL that the numbers associated with motor oil are the viscosity rates based on cold and hot temperatures. The first number followed by a “w” refers to the cold temperature and the second is the hot temperature. Both refer to the thickness and viscosity of the oil at different temps.
e0gn6 TIL of Marcel Lihau, a Congolese man that studied law in Belgium and helped establish two Constitutions for the new Congolese state in the 1960s. He sat on the country's first Supreme Court until 1975, when he was removed by the country's dictator, Joseph-Desiré Mobutu
XEPEr TIL of Rapid Man, Colorado Rapids' mascot, "a cross between a muscular man-smurf and a steroid-enhanced Bart Simpson who had just emerged from taking the polar plunge"