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TIL Summer on Uranus lasts 47 years, and so does winter
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TIL four Canadian comedians pretended to be involved in an affair between a married man and his babysitter, in order to get on the Jerry Springer Show. Springer sued them, settling for $10, which was delivered as coins.
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TIL During the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, Leonard Jerome, famous wall street speculator and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill, defended the New York Times office building with a Gatling Gun.
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TIL a unit of women aviators, known as the Night Witches, in the Soviet Air Force bombed the Germans during WWII by idling their engines and gliding to the bomb release site so that only the wind noise could reveal their position. They did this at night and flew with no parachutes.
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TIL that "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-lot was a call to see beauty in diversity. Sir Mix-a-lot used the song to blame the media for skewing the notion of beauty and hoped his music would empower women of all shapes and sizes.
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TIL Chris Pratt worked as a daytime stripper and then was homeless in Maui