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TIL Tina Fey has a scar a few inches long on the left side of her chin and cheek. In kindergarten, she was slashed in the face by a stranger in an alley behind her house.

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gMKeL TIL Leigh Mercer, a mathematician and writer, created an equation that, when spoken aloud, was a limerick. "A dozen, a gross, and a score/Plus three times the square root of four/Divided by seven/Plus five times eleven/Is nine squared and not a bit more."
R5o91 TIL the Solar System is much, much larger than I thought; Pluto is located at 39 Astronomical Units from the sun, while the Oort cloud, formed by billions or even trillions of asteroids, starts at around 2 to 5 thousand AUs from the sun and ends at around 10 to 100 thousand.
vPer7 TIL in 1984 Leonard Bernstein once conducted the Vienna Philharmonic without the need of a baton or even his hands and instead only used his brow & facial expressions to communicate to the orchestra all the information they needed.
4Xlna TIL about Mwamaka Sharifu, a Kenyan girl (now woman) who claimed she's a descendant of Chinese sailors from the 15th century Zheng He expedition , and was given a scholarship by the Chinese government
epOk4 TIL when Al Smith won South Carolina with 91.39% in 1928, it was the worst result for a winner of South Carolina in a presidential election after 1896 and prior to 1944.