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TIL Martian Van Buren Was the First President Born in the United States

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d8OkB TIL Merv Griffin's wife, Julann came up with the format for Jeopardy! in response to the U.S. quiz show scandals of a few years earlier in 1963, when she proposed this idea to him: “Well, why don’t you give them the answers? And make people come up with the questions?”
OGDQ6 TIL Clint Eastwood had two country music hits in the '80s, one of which was called "Make My Day"
KkkB TIL of Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
9Ym57 TIL that to prepare for her role as Annie in Speed, Sandra Bullock actually learned how to drive a bus. She passed the test and got her license on her first try.
ep69L TIL The Gospel of Judas, discovered in 2007, is one of many of "non-canonical" gospels from the same periods as the 4 canon gospels, and are, in some cases, arbitraliy excluded: Marcion, Judas, Mani, Apelles, & Bardesanes, etc. Some paint Jesus's teachings as more dharmic.