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TIL that "Contempt of Congress" was originally defined as "bribery of a U.S. Senator or U.S. Representative." Now, it is defined as obstructing the work of the U.S. Congress.

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N7a6E TIL that the iconic Easter Island heads actually have hidden bodies that have been found during excavations. The statues were partially buried due to landslides over the years and their bodies were only rediscovered relatively recently.
kOvRm TIL of Hellé Nice who was a nude model, a dancer and racing driver. She won the first Grand Prix for Women in 1929, beat male racing drivers of the day, broke the land speed record, appeared on magazine covers across the world and was accused of being a Nazi spy. She died in abject poverty in 1984.
e0wX6 TIL that 'family values' activist Terry Rakolta wrote to several advertisers asking for them to pull their ads from the show, Married... With Children. Some did but the media coverage it got is what made it a major hit. The cast and crew sent Rakolta flowers every year they were renewed.
nPdW TIL that the false-consensus effect or false-consensus bias is an attributional type of cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their opinions, beliefs, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of those of others
Km59 TIL that the Diplodocus could whip its tail so fast it would break the sound barrier, producing a canon-like boom.