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TIL Crocodiles Are More Closely Related To Birds Than They Are To Lizards

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QNJjE TiL jazz musician Lester Young is said to have popularized the use of the word "cool" to mean something fashionable. He also coined the term "bread" as slang for money, often asking "How does the bread smell?" when asking how much a gig was going to pay.
gMy8y TIL that German-born soldiers made up about 10% of Union forces during the Civil War. Some of them were exiled supporters of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe. After the war, the Forty-Eighters supported improved labor laws, and also advanced development in education, medicine, and journalism.
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xVLe0 TIL that Jonathan Freeman, the original voice actor for Jafar in Aladdin, also plays Jafar in the Broadway version of Aladdin. That makes him the only actor in the Disney broadway shows to play the animated and real life version of a Disney character.
v7NL TIL that in 2009, just in case Space Shuttle Atlantis was damaged while working on the Hubble, Endeavor was readied to launch a rescue mission. This was one of the few times both shuttle launch pads were occupied.