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TIL Lil’ Wayne’s original stage name was Shrimp Daddy.

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VMwN0 TIL aerospace engineer and author Judith Love Cohen (worked on the Hubble Space Telescope) had two well known sons. The first son, Neil Siegel, developed GPS receivers in mobile devices and the US Army's first unmanned air vehicle system. The second son is a rather famous actor... named Jack Black.
78GDp Today I learned: A canary trap is a technique to identify an information leak by giving different versions of a sensitive document to several suspects and observing which version gets leaked.
e09jg TIL Star Trek Voyager's captain, Kate Mulgrew was tricked into narrating a documentary supportive of a geocentric viewpoint.
9YjBM TIL that during the scrapping of the SS Great Eastern in 1890, the body of one of the original builders was found inside the double hull-he had gone missing in 1853.
ADoDw TIL of Karl P. Schmidt, a herpetologist who documented his own death after he was bitten by a juvenile boomslang snake. He made detailed notes on the symptoms he experienced, almost right up to the end. He died 24 hours after the bite, bleeding in his lungs, kidneys, heart, and brain.