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TIL that Skandar Keynes, who played Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia, is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Darwin.

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xkPb TIL That Alan Turing (who created a precursor to the modern computer), committed suicide in 1954. Two years prior, he had been “convicted” of homosexuality, in which he was forced to undergo hormonal treatments and lost security clearance to continue his research.
VBdYm TIL that iran once banned the hijab in 1933 to make iranian society more secular this had the opposite effect and led to a uproar of islamic thought in iran it made iranian feel there religion was being attacked it was one of the justification for the iranian revolution.
p5XZ TIL that in 2013, Google bought the GPS app “Waze” which resulted in each of the 100 employees receiving an average of $1.2 million.
nbgG TIL Claudette Colvin. she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, nine months prior to Rosa Parks. She was not promoted because she was a teenager who was impregnated by a married man.
e0DYb TIL that in June 1995 CIA took an aerial photo in Bosnia. It showed thousands of men and boys held captive near Srebrenica in Bosnia. Few days later they took a photo of the same area, but this time it showed mass graves.