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TIL Gwen Stefani's older brother Eric was an animator on The Simpsons and drew the band into the episode "Homerpalooza" (1996)

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QNJ0p TIL Voltaire met a married mother of 3, Émilie du Châtelet, 12 years his junior with whom he had an affair with for 16 years. Later, on a visit to Paris, Voltaire took a new lover - his niece, Marie Louise Mignot.
oBKbY TIL the New York Yankees baseball team began as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, before moving to New York in 1903 where the team was re-named the New York Highlanders. The team was not re-named the Yankees until a decade later in 1913.
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