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TIL that some San Francisco streets are named after Gold Rush-era prostitutes

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VBK6B TIL that Halle Berry won a Worst Actor Razzie award for her role in Catwoman. She showed up in person to collect the award and spoke while holding her Academy Award from Monster's Ball in one hand and the Razzie in the other.
4OEo TIL that scientists were monitoring whale stress levels by analyzing their poop and found that their stress plummeted immediately following the 9/11 attacks. Turns out this was due to all ship traffic being halted which quieted the oceans of low frequency noise which whales use to communicate
pLY8 TIL that iconic Barbie doll is based on the appearance of a sex toy that represented high-end German call girl
R5kaj TIL English rock band "The Verve" were required to relinquish 100% of their royalties from their hit "Bittersweet Symphony" for using a sample of Andrew Oldham Orchestra's recording of "The Last Time," itself a rendition of The Rolling Stones song of the same name.
N7MbQ TIL there was a book published in Einstein’s lifetime entitled “100 Authors Against Einstein” of which Einstein retorted, “if I were wrong, then one would have been enough!”