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TIL a Group of Baboons is Called a Congress

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RoN4 TIL that Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, stormed out of a lecture given to college students after being told his interpretation of his own book was wrong.
N18E TIL Dorothy Kilgallen, a panelist on the hit TV show What’s My Line?, died under what some consider mysterious circumstances while investigating the assassination of JFK. Shortly before she died, she told a friend, “I’m going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century.”
a8LVo TIL that Max Schmeling was the only boxer to knock Joe Louis out in his prime, despite the fact that Schmeling was a decade older than Louis, at the time they fought.
Yp7wZ TIL that The actor Richard Attenborough, old guy naturalist from Jurassic Park, is the real life brother to David Attenborough, old guy naturalist from the BBC.
jDxp TIL of Antihydrogen, a material valued at 90 trillion dollars per gram, making it the most expensive material in the world.