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TIL Tommy Smothers was present for the recording of Give Peace A Chance

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awgJ0 TIL between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as POWs. The pilots' translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.
0675 TIL that Douglas Adams came up with the idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field holding a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe.
gM1vy TIL Eleanor Roosevelt held weekly press conferences and allowed female journalists to attend, forcing many news organizations to hire their first female reporters
p8kAN TIL that NCAA basketball players’ numbers are required to be base 6 so that referees can signal the two numbers with fingers on each hand.
v1V64 TIL Before cars in New York City there were 15000 abandoned horse carcasses removed a year and 3-4 million pounds of horse crap on the streets every day.