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TIL that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was asked at her confirmation hearing where she’d spent the previous Christmas. Her answer: “Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.”

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ZrPp TIL that there is a bell in Oxford University library that hasn’t stopped ringing for 175 years. Researchers are afraid that opening the bell would ruin an experiment to see how long it will last.
rydo TIL that Lana Del Rey used to perform in nightclubs under the name “Sparkle Jump Rope Queen”
N7kme TIL In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II visited a mock-up Nigerian village populated by actors playing villagers, coming as close to ordinary people there as possible because of security concerns
m1njo TIL of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln. A Hungarian Of Jewish descent, he spent parts of his life as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, Buddhist abbot in China, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.
e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson