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TIL civil rights activist Effa Manley is the lone female member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

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neDbb TIL there are two types of amnaesia - retrograde (where you lose past memories but can form new ones) and anterograde (where you can't form new memories).
9YnXX TIL that Lebanon was known as the land of Phoenicians and their national bird is the mythical Phoenix.
4ydo TIL:Once George Dantzig was late for the class, professor had written two examples of famously unsolved statistics problems on the blackboard. Dantzig assumed that the two problems were a homework assignment and wrote them down. A few days later he handed in completed solutions for the two problems.
aw0wo TIL that the voice actress that played Snow White, Adriana Caselotti, was forbidden by her Disney contract from appearing in films or on radio or television because it would "spoil the illusion of Snow White."
9wXLr TIL that the Babylonian emperor Hammurabi used wind power for his irrigation project in the 17th century BC