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TIL that actress Brooke Shields is descended from both the Medici and Borgia families, along with both Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror.

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kOBN5 TIL Jay-Z released "Glory" on January 9, 2012, a song dedicated to his first child, Blue Ivy Carter. Because Blue's cries were included at the end of the song and she was officially credited on the song as "B.I.C", at two days old she became the youngest person ever to appear on a Billboard chart.
R9j4 TIL after Nintendo won their 1985 case against Universal Studios over their game Donkey Kong, they thanked their attorney with a $30,000 sailboat named Donkey Kong and “exclusive worldwide rights to use the name for sailboats”.
yVPo8 TIL about "Rose's Law", which is the "Moore's Law of Moore's Law" for quantum computation. It states that the quantity of qubits in a quantum computer doubles every 1.5-2 years. However, this results in exponential exponential growth of computing power.
p8Ma4 TIL bacon ice cream started as a joke in a 1973 Two Ronnie's sketch and was later made for real in 1982 as an April Fools joke. By 2005 however, chef Heston Blumenthal would be serving bacon ice cream at his 3 Michelin star restaurant, the Fat Duck - the #1 restaurant in the world at the time.
xpoB TIL the human heart contains taste receptors like the ones on the tongue.