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TIL The second incarnation of CBS Corporation was actually the legal successor of the original Viacom

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E710 TIL that Sigourney Weaver’s real name is Susan and she chose the name “Sigourney” from a character mentioned in “The Great Gatsby”
1GDd TIL that Carrie Underwood was born with a third nipple.
ZkdG TIL that the first rap song to top #1 on the Billboard charts was Blondie’s “Rapture”, sung by Debbie Harry, a white female. It was also the first rap music video to appear on MTV.
v1NOK TIL A statue of Nikola Tesla in Silicon Valley radiates free wifi. It was designed to inspire entrepreneurs who come to the Silicon Valley to think big and selflessly.
J4Wj TIL: That in 1962, a programmer omitted a single hyphen in the code for the Mariner I rocket, causing it to explode shortly after take off. This typo cost NASA the equivalent of $630 million dollars today.