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19/03/2023
When women were excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in London and forced to sit in a "no speaking section", William Lloyd Garrison, the conference's keynote speaker, refused to give his speech and sat with the women, "dominating the convention without saying a word".
16/03/2023
The VLC media player uses a traffic cone for its icon because the students who created it drunkenly started a traffic cone collection.
Absolutely amazing
12/03/2023
The jabuticaba tree a.k.a. the Brazilian grape tree is unusual in the sense that its berries grow directly on the trunk. They are so popular in some Brazilian states that sidewalks are actually stained purple from the discarded skins of the fruit.
12/03/2023
The Nightman Cometh episode of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" was performed in front of an audience of background actors who weren't informed of what they were watching. "The audience didn't have any context, so I remember a lot of confused faces as we were performing," said Rob McElhenney