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TIL Rob Zombie used to be a production assistant on Pee-wee's Playhouse.

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kJaX4 TIL Jane Goodall met her first husband, Hugo van Lawick when he came to photograph her for National Geographic in Gombe Stream National Park and married in 1964. They had a son nicknamed Grub. But when his funding dried up, he had to leave Gombe and the couple drifted apart
j61JX TIL that at the Confederacy’s surrender at Appomattox, a Seneca Indian (General Grant’s secretary), Lieutenant Colonel Ely Parker, wrote the terms of surrender
GYPZJ NASA's offering online astronaut training (for kids) while you're stuck in lockdown.
VMVy4 TIL that the "N" in N95 masks means they do [N]ot filter oil-based particles very well, like certain viruses.
mxo0M TIL Theodore Roosevelt's 1880 undergraduate thesis at Harvard was titled: "The Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law" which argued for women's rights, including property ownership, and argued that women ought to keep their birth names upon marrying.