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TIL that journalist and feminist icon Gloria Steinem is the stepmother to Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale.

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4nyR TIL Stephen Fry claims the UK record for saying ‘fuck’ on television most times in one live broadcast.
awxZb TIL the Apollo program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the Sun, by NASA manager Abe Silverstein. Silverstein chose the name at home one evening, early in 1960, because he felt "Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program."
LQr4m TIL about the Texas two-step bankruptcy, which is when a parent company spins off liabilities into a new company. The new company then declares bankruptcy to avoid litigation. An example of this is when Johnson & Johnson transferred liability for selling talc powder with asbestos to a new company.
VKGG TIL that Sean Connery, who started balding at age 21, wore a toupee throughout all of the Bond films.
5YJkQ TIL Stephen Hawking was still working on "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" with questions like "Is there a God?" when he died. To fill the gaps, the publishers used Hawking’s “enormous personal archive” and completed the book with his academic colleagues, his family, and personal estate