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TIL Will.I.Am created the theme song for Samurai Jack

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yw0a TIL of the Romansch language. Spoken only in a small part of the Swiss Alps, it is a direct descendant of the Vulgar Latin used by the Roman Imperial troops garrisoned there.
R5w14 TIL that in 1984, during Space Shuttle mission STS 41-B, astronaut Bruce McCandless made the first untethered spacewalk as he flew some 300 feet from the Shuttle in the first test of the MMU.
dDZaE TIL: The Anchorage Parking Fairies, whose campaign lead to the dissolution of the city's parking authority
p8Nwe TIL the Mesoamerican ballgame played by the ancient Aztecs and Mayans might have been used as a subsitute for warfare.
N0ob TIL Harvard prof. Dr. Edward Clarke asserted that women should not be allowed to attend college. If young women studied too much, they would divert blood away from the uterus to the brain, rendering themselves “irritable and infertile.”