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TIL that the first television program to show whites and blacks talking as equals was 1959’s Playboy Penthouse

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Lood TIL that the author of ‘Where the Wild Things are’, Maurice Sendak, is gay and had a male partner for 50 years until his partner’s death. Despite this, he never told his parents, and they died still believing he was straight
XEQrk TIL whale calves are born in the water and need to swim to the surface for their first breath - sadly, some of them don’t make it and drown.
p8lAN TIL in the "The Famous Five" books, published in 1942, there is a 11-year-old character named Georgina who is a tomboy and demands that people call her "George". She often gets cross when anyone calls her by her real name and loves it when somebody mistakes her for a boy.
p87W4 TIL about a UK spray painter who anonymously drew penises on potholes around the country to force the government to fix them. He was given the nickname “Wanksy”.
k9rE TIL that in 1937, a gas leak in the basement at the local school in New London, Texas caused a massive explosion which killed almost 300 children and teachers, the deadliest school disaster in US history. Adolf Hitler even sent his condolences by telegram.