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TIL Rapper Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar from Rugrats

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e06M5 TIL that William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy, the first Norman king of England, and ancestor to every English/British monarch since, was born a bastard.
YpQbB TIL that Sherlock Holmes had never once said “Elementary, My Dear Watson”. Apparently it’s very common for famous literary characters to have false catchphrases attaches to their names.
lo1Zr TIL: A startup company is teaching crows to clean up cigarette butts for peanuts.
Brwxr TIL The historical Buddha is not known to have been obese. The "chubby Buddha" or "laughing Buddha" is a 10th-century Chinese folk hero by the name of Budai.
0wVDL TIL that the tail of a stegosaurus is called the "thagomizer". The term was coined in 1982 in a cartoon made by Gary Larson. This bone did not have a scientific name yet, and thagomizer was eventually adopted as the scientific name.