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TIL that Mike Judge, creator of King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead, graduated college with a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics.

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ODya TIL the Library of Congress has a letter sent by a young Neil deGrasse Tyson to Carl Sagan, thanking Sagan for his generosity when they met at Cornell, and telling of his future career plans in science
WknEo TIL the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot featured LQBTQ themes, including cross dressing, and as a result was produced without approval from the Hays Code, a popular set of self-censorship guidelines used for decades in Hollywood. The success of the film is one of the reasons behind its abandonment.
WkWAL TIL some 19th century Japanese artwork depicted westerners with the whites of their eyes as blue because the artists were confused about which part of the eye was supposed to be blue.
p8VmA TIL that Myers Motors produced a car specifically for Domino's Pizza. Two models were produced: the original "jelly bean" model and then a hatchback model, which was nicknamed "pizza butt" because it was designed for use by Domino's Pizza
kJ5Rd TIL that the term Dark triad - a term used to describe three negative personality traits -was coined back in 2002 by the Canadian psychologists Delroy Paulhus and Kevin Williams.