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TIL John Adams, who would go on to become the second President, defended in court the soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre, earning acquittals for six of the eight.

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4XwrR TIL The great conjunction is the time where Jupiter and Saturn meet. It coincides with winter solstice this year.
jN6dp "If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater," says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. It would take a moon-size object to move the moon, says Clark Chapman, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, and most likely the moon wouldn't survive. Hitting it with a much larger, denser object would be like whacking an egg with a golf club.
oDPR TIL Don McLean occasionally accidentally sang the lyrics to Weird Al’s Star Wars parody of “American Pie” when performing it onstage
oyxr TIL Frank Sinatra did not serve in World War II because he was classified 4-F, but also that doctors believed that he was “neurotic” and “not acceptable material from a psychiatric standpoint”.
1oeW TIL that in 1962 comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for using the word “schmuck” on stage. “Schmuck” is a Yiddish swear word for “penis”, and is considered deeply offensive in Yiddish speaking communities.