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TIL a statue of William Shakespeare in Central Park was paid for with funds raised by John Wilkes Booth

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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.
78OeM TIL that former Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned in large part due to a speech in which he said the reason for underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences was partly due to genetics
rmvW TIL that a HD Cable/DVR box uses more power than a refrigerator.
ep6db TIL the Portuguese-Spanish border has its own name, "The Stripe".
yZQJ TIL there is a creature with the ability to neutralize almost all poisons, even from creatures it has never encountered. One day this ability might be utilized by Humans. This creature is called The Opossum.