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TIL Donald Glover got his rapper name ‘Childish Gambino’ from an online Wu-Tang Clan name generator.

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VMe44 TIL Scott Joplin the man who revolutionized the way piano is played was turned away from backing of financial suitors because he was black and it didn't suit them. He ended up contracting syphilis and was admitted into a psychiatric hospital. He died ther and his grave was unmarked for 57 years.
E1olX TIL of the Sour Toe Cocktail. a drink garnished with an actual human toe that has been dehydrated and preserved in salt, which originally belonged to a miner who had it amputated in the 1920s. It was accidentally swallowed in 1980 but since then seven more have been donated.
a86vJ TIL that the human colon holds one of the highest bacterial density recorded in any habitat on Earth, estimated at 10¹¹ to 10¹² bacterial cells per milliliter.
OGy5g TIL that because of the US Airways aircraft incident on the Hudson River (portrayed in the movie "Sully") 70,000 Canada geese have been intentionally killed in 17 different locations around New York City to prevent further complications with flights.
BgZ6K TIL Star Trek and Mission Impossible and other hit shows were produced by Lucile Ball and her husbands production company.