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TIL during an interview about the casting of Jean-Luc Picard, Gene Roddenberry was asked by a reporter, “Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century?” Roddenberry answered, “In the 24th century, they wouldn’t care.”

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OoQQ7 TIL The ability to read mispelled words is not based only on the first and last letter of the word, but also on the overall context and many other psycholinguistic factors. The original meme that made this popular actually used very specific words to show the effect, but it fails for other words.
4G1o TIL during the civil war the man who chose the location for the Arlington Cemetery, Montgomery Meigs, a southerner who hated the confederacy, chose Arlington, Robert E. Lees family estate to remind him of the men he had killed, including Meigs’s son who was buried feet from Mrs. Lees rose garden.
kreg TIL that after France joined the American Revolution, Britain offered freedom from all taxation and unconditional pardon in exchange for peace, but this was rejected because independence was now an attainable goal
xV7eg TIL Anne of Kiev became a Queen of France. By naming her first son and future King of France Philip, she is credited with introducing this Greek name (Philippos, from Philos and hippos, meaning "loves horses") to royal families of Western Europe
6DwY TIL “Cowabunga” was originally a nonsense word used by Chief Thundercloud on “The Howdy Doody Show” in the early ‘50s. It was then adopted for use by surfers and later on, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Bart Simpson.