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TIL women in the early 1900’s would stab catcallers with their hatpins

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BW7e TIL earlier this year, Star Wars was translated into Navajo, becoming the first major motion picture to be translated into any Native American language.
DQOpg TIL that due to a bad hand cramp, Tina Weymouth was unable to play bass on the studio recording of the Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love". One of the studio engineers had to take her place.
78YkX TIL Olive oil is actually "juice"
7rOKx TIL that if you were able to remove all the empty space from the atoms that make up everyone's bodies, every person on earth would be able to fit into an apple.
WkQb4 TIL that Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet, in 1943 tried to escape from a Nazi work camp in Tarnopol (now Ukraine), for which he was sentenced to death. While digging his own grave, he killed a guard with a shovel and successfully escaped disguised as a Wermacht soldier.