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TIL that Jackie Robinson’s wife is still alive and she’s 101 years old

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6elm TIL Before creating “Family Guy” Seth MacFarlane worked for Hanna-Barbara Productions writing for such shows as “Johnny Bravo” and “Cow and Chicken”
6EbKm TIL, the heliocentric theory and spherical earth concepts were proposed by Yajnavalkya, an indian astronomer in 8th-9th BCE. He also calculated the distance between earth and sun, and moon. He also calculated the duration of an year to a precision of 6 minutes longer than modern measurement.
JAJV TIL The Statue of Liberty was planned to be built in Egypt to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal
ZOva TIL despite its name, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” hasn’t actually aired live since 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep a swearing rant from actor Thomas Jane.
R59d9 TIL author Honoré de Balzac, best known for The Human Comedy, wrote a fanfiction sequel to the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin