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TIL: A kindergarten was built on the former site of the monkey lab were Reston Ebola was discovered

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K7x9 TIL while working on “Malcolm In The Middle,” Bryan Cranston joined a song writers guild so that he got paid royalties for the tunes he hummed and whistled on the show. He threw parties for the cast and crew with the royalty cheques and as a result the crew encouraged more humming.
Ypo57 TIL that when Winston Churchill's grandson, also a politician named Winston Churchill, visited Gulf War sites and introduced himself to a soldier, the soldier replied "Yes, and I'm Rommel."
VMJj0 TIL that 17 years before Confederate General James Longstreet surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House, he stood as a groomsman in Grant's wedding. At the surrender, they embraced and reminisced about "the days that were so pleasant."
NXdDQ TIL That the Music Video "Bad" is an 18-Minute Short Film, with a Relatively Unknown Wesley Snipes Serving as Michael Jackson's Antagonist
OoAmY TIL: Italian herbalist Pietro Andrae Matthioli declared the red tomato as a mandrake, a halogenic poisonous planet root long associated with sexual desires, hallucinations and temptation because the tomato was similar looking to nightshade, an actual poisonous fruit.