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TIL Rapper Busta Rhymes voiced the Reptar Wagon from Rugrats

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4yg TIL Dave Chapelle’s black KKK character was based on his grandfather (A blind white guy, brought up by a black family).
bG8Z TIL a man in Russia domesticated foxes that now sell for $9000. “Curiously, the friendly gene came attached to some other physical genes that made the foxes look like other domestic animals: curly tails, white faces, droopy ears. It took only about 35 years to completely domesticate the species.”
KO7DR TIL about Pope Gregory XVIII, an anti-pope of the Palmarian Catholic Church who left the faith, married a nun, stole a BMW, attempted armed robbery on his former Cathedral, and is now in jail.
b4O0 TIL After JFK was assassinated, there was a brief scuffle between local and federal authorities when the President’s security detail wasn’t allowed to remove his body from the hospital. It ended when the Secret Service agents put the local officials against the wall at gunpoint.
9wEXG TIL about the Millennial whoop - no, it's not what you think! - but it is a vocal melodic pattern that especially prevalent in 2010s pop music - one early example of its usage in the new millennium is the song "In the Shadows" by the Finnish band The Rasmus from 2004