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TIL after she was burned at the stake, Joan of Arcs brothers hired an imposter so they could collect on her good name fraudulently.

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b9P7E TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya—the second woman in space—arrived at Mir (first modular space station) in 1982, she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen by her fellow cosmonauts.
VMeQB TIL Carol Burnett got her career started with the help of money from a stranger, who asked that he never be identified. (Not only has she never revealed his name, her benefactor also never told anyone else about his help, even after she became famous.)
kOpm5 TIL about Collingwood Ingram, a British man who became an expert on cherry trees and saved the great white cherry from extinction in Japan.
l7Rw1 TIL that there are more than 110 armed conflicts today.
5YL7P TIL the first person of African heritage in space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez