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TIL more Americans identify as Independent than as Democrat or Republican

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v1PJx TIL Jelly Roll Morton, at the age of 14 tricked his great-grandmother into believing he was a night watchman at a barrel house when in fact he was working as a piano player in a brothel. In that atmosphere, he often sang smutty lyrics; he took the nickname "Jelly Roll", which was slang for vagina.
DQgxg TIL Nobel Prize of Physics recipient Tsung-Dao Lee was awarded in 1957 and is still alive 65 years later. He was 31 at the time.
MMG0 TIL that worms from a science experiment were found alive in the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia
1aWNX TIL that when you get a sunburn, it's not your skin cells being damaged by the sun's UV rays and dying, it's your skin cells' DNA being damaged by the sun's UV rays making the cells kill themselves to prevent turning into cancer
9odm TIL physicist Bernard Waldman witnessed the bombing of Hiroshima, as a camera operator on the observation aircraft. He was equipped with a special high-speed movie camera with six seconds of film to record the blast. Unfortunately, Waldman forgot to open the camera shutter, and no film was exposed.