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TIL Cheech Marin beat Yale graduate Anderson Cooper and Dartmouth graduate Aisha Tyler at Celebrity Jeopardy.

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kJGQB TIL of Cape Disappointment in South Georgia, discovered by an expedition led by Captain Cook who named it so after realizing that he had discovered an island and not a continent
1ap9D TIL: the case of Philip Clay, adopted as a child, deported as an adult; Clay ends up committing suicide. There are thousands of people like him, adoptees who did not know they were still not legally us citizens because their adoptive families never filled out the paperwork.
ANoyB TIL that “cute aggression” occurs when the human brain is overwhelmed by a cute animal or object, causing aggressive thoughts to counteract the overwhelming positive one.
QNKda TIL after murdering a woman in 1821, convicted killer John Horwood was hanged, had his body dissected and his skin was used to bind a book that contained the details of his crime in a practice called anthropodermic bibliopegy.
R7bPa TIL the phenomenon where you see faces in things (i.e. "The Man On The Moon" or cars) is called Pareidolia