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4X9vN TIL the term "Interest Convergence" wherein interests of minorities only improve when viewed as benefiting the majority - eg. ability to study/work from home for disabled is only now being fully actualised as it benefits all
dDvZd TIL 2016 was the first time since 1928 that the Republicans won an election without a Bush or Nixon on the ticket.
5YMVQ TIL the first female American astronaut Sally Ride was a respected astrophysicist and a top athlete. However, before her flight, she fielded questions such as "Will the flight affect your reproductive organs?", "Do you weep when things go wrong?" and "Will you become a mother?" from the US media.
oBr7W TIL in the critically-reviewed movie Eighth Grade, Apple pulled out from providing free laptops and phones to the film after the producers refused to remove a scene where an iPhone gets broken. The laptops and phones shown belong to the crew and the broken iPhone scene was kept in. (Audio 1:25:55)
myEv TIL that in 2013 a 200-year-old law was removed in Paris that forbid women from wearing pants.