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TIL the lone Supreme Court justice to dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson grew up in a household with a light-skinned, blue-eyed slave who was treated much like a family member. The slave, Robert Harlan, was believed to be John Harlan’s older half-brother. Even John’s father believed Robert was his son.

VB6WQ TIL about Hanatarash, a Japanese noise band that used power tools, drills, and heavy machinery as their instruments. In 1985, at one of their shows, the frontman Yamantaka Eye drove through the back wall of the venue with an excavator and proceeded to throw a molotov cocktail at the wreckage.
O8g TIL That Facebook owns hundreds of Domain names, including faceboo.com, fb.com, and IHateTheFacebookLikeButton.com
m1PWy TIL Menu Change Cost is the cost incurred by a restaurant for changing its menu or increasing prices. Restaurants must weigh this cost against the prospect of added revenue from changing the menu
awWL0 TIL Miles Davis played his cover of David Crosby's "Guinnevere" for Crosby at the former's home before releasing it, and Crosby didn't recognize any resemblance between Davis's version and his composition. Davis got offended and kicked him out of his house.
d86Aj TIL the dissections of Da Vinci began an artistic style called écorché (flayed in French), which graphically depicts the body without skin. This musculoskeletal blueprint for postures and gestures aided Renaissance realism. In the Enlightenment, mass-produced sculptures standardized medical studies