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TIL that Calvin & Hobbes are based on the philosophers John Calvin & Thomas Hobbes

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rNKa1 TIL that Alexander Hamilton Jr., the 3rd son of Alexander Hamilton married an Eliza namely Eliza Knox. Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1816–1889), the 3rd son of James Alexander Hamilton who is the 4th son of Alexander Hamilton married an Angelica namely Angelica Livingston.
xYl7 TIL the New Zealand town of Brightwater had 5 electric street lights in 1911 powered by a hydroelectric generator which was auto-controlled by a flock of chickens. At night, the chickens would go inside their coop and their weight would close an electric circuit, turning on the street lights.
o89W TIL that the band, The Rolling Stones, would never have been formed if Keith Richards and Mick Jagger hadn’t accidentally met at a train station in 1961. Richards struck up a conversation with Jagger about the blues records that he was carrying. The connection was instant and the rest is history.
ne4W9 TIL that the ‘104 days of summer vacation’ referenced in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon song was used because co-creator Dan Povenmire only expected the show to last 52 episodes, like most Disney Channel shows lasted at the time, and there were two segments per episode, making it 104.
4X0P6 TIL that our solar system's planet configuration is quite unusual and that it is more common for extrasolar planetary systems to have larger planets close to their suns, as opposed to our solar system which has small terrestial planets closer in, followed by the gas giants further away