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TIL lead vocalist, bassist, & founding member of the band Biohazard and actor Evan Seinfeld is a second cousin of comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld. The two appeared together on an SNL skit crossing over Oz and Seinfeld.

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xek7 TIL Football and Football are both called such because neither is played on horseback.
ANJbx TIL a Supreme Court case challenged the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the very same year it was passed. In Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that Title II of the act did not exceed Congress's authority by the Commerce Clause, and the Act remained constitutional.
P1xGL TIL that since 1959 in the US, imperial distance measurements (foot, yard, etc.) are standardized in reference to metric distance measurements, e.g. the inch is defined by an exact centimeter amount
e0Z95 TIL about The Black Book, a list of people that the Nazis would have arrested if they have occupied Britain during WWII. The list included notable politicians and Jewish people as well as author H G Wells, suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst and philosopher Bertrand Russell.
gr0v4 TIL that various animals have been awarded degrees, exposing the fraudulent activities of “degree mills.” One instance includes a cat that received an MBA and had a 3.5 GPA.