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TIL Matt Groening’s Mother’s maiden name was Wiggum.

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OoKn6 TIL some streets in Old San Juan, PR are paved with blue cobblestones, called adoquines, and were made from the waste, or slag, that resulted from iron smelting, then cast into blocks and brought to the island as ballasts in the bottoms of 18th-century Spanish ships.
NXLnE TIL about Gungywamp, an archeological site in Connecticut consisting of ruins and artifacts that is theorized to have evidence of Pre-Columbian European settlement of the Americas, including 5th century Irish monks or Norsemen
R7Xx6 TIL Tony Bennett first ‘met’ his wife Susan Benedetto while she was in the womb. In 1966, her parents met the singer backstage to pose for a picture him whilst her mother was pregnant with her. Bennett said “It’s a photo we all laugh about, knowing the incredible turn of events that followed.”