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78gdL TIL that River Phoenix's birth name is River Bottom
7rVkx TIL as composer Mike Greene was working on the "Bill Nye The Science Guy" theme song, a rap group was also recording inside his studio. He called them over to chant "Bill!" into the mic. It wasn't until the show aired that they knew why.
rRkoW TIL Pluto (the Disney cartoon dog) when it first appeared in 1930 doesn't have a name yet. He was briefly named Rover. Animators believed Walt Disney wanted to capitalize the popularity of the newly named planet discovered that same year, what is why he was later renamed to Pluto.
694N7 TIL the Patriots’ ring from Super Bowl 51 has 283 diamonds to commemorate their comeback from being down 28-3
8e7E8 TIL Ted Kaczynski carried on working on pure mathematics from his cabin in Montana and he even submitted a type-written paper to a math journal in 1976 which he claimed proved an earlier posited solution