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TIL Chinese restaurants in California helped punk rock and punk rock bands by allowing the bands to play in the restaurants

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N7mpJ TIL of a play called the "Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda." "It critiques acclaimed musical Hamilton through a depiction of a fictionalized version of Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is visited by several historical figures missing from the musical in a style similar to Dickens' A Christmas Carol."
Br0r TIL upon its discovery by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, the element polonium was named after Poland (in latin Polonia) to shed light on the countries lack of independence. It may be the first element named to highlight a political controversy.
R5wKQ TIL that despite Kid Curry being the least well known of the infamous Wild Bunch gang, he was by far the most dangerous, having killed at least nine law enforcement officers.
erjJ TIL that Nobel Prize laureate William Shockley, who invented a transistor, also proposed that individuals with IQs below 100 be paid to undergo voluntary sterilization