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TIL Journalists and Activists Cant Account to Where Half a Billion in Charitable Donations to Haiti Went

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epmwb TIL as late as the 1960's, the Ivy League undergraduate programs were only open to men—the exception being Cornell which has been open to women since 1865. Columbia became the last in 1983 to become coeducational.
neEvr TIL In 1974, Johnny Carson requested that NBC stop airing Tonight Show reruns on the weekend as he wanted to save those reruns for the extra vacation days he was planning to take. NBC wanted to fill those slots, so they hired Lorne Michaels to develop a show. That show became SNL.
Oond6 TIL that yonic is the opposite of phallic. When something is yonic its form is inspired by the vagina or vulva.
DQLgY TIL of Eva Saxl, a type 1 diabetic who ran out of insulin during WW2 and made insulin from water buffaloes. It saved the lives of over 200 people in the Shanghai Ghetto.
aknM TIL redundant phrases such as “ATM Machine” and “PIN Number” are examples of RAS Syndrome- Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome