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TIL Chuck Lorre (creator of TBBT, Two and a half men, etc) worked on cruise ships as a guitar player

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Eg4rX TIL Rock and Roll was originally a euphemism for sex
JJkk TIL Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Edgar Allan Poe all married their first cousin
m7EM TIL Marilyn Monroe was really good friends with Ella Fitzgerald. Monroe was instrumental in getting Ella past racial barriers to perform and they stayed friend till death.
vPRMx TIL Virgil McCroskey purchased 4,400 acres of land for tourism in Idaho on the condition he maintain it himself for 15 years; McCroskey accepted the terms, and lived exactly 15 more years, fulfilling his obligation to the state of Idaho just weeks before his death in 1970 at age 93.
gMGVX TIL at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics there was a "Savage Games" known as Anthropology Days staged. Native Americans and "ethnic tribesman" from many countries were shipped in to compete against each other with the purpose of displaying White superiority.