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TIL Whoopi Goldberg's birth name is Caryn Elaine Johnson. "Whoopi" is because she got gassy, "Goldberg" is due to a claim of Jewish ancestry.

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x6EZ7 TIL most Scottish people are of Germanic Angle decent, not Celtic/Gaelic and the Scots language diverged from Early Middle English and is different to Scottish Gaelic which came from Irish colonisation of Scotland, who the Romans called "Scotti"
E1GNX TIL that when astronauts are outside the ISS, space-borne compounds adhere to their suits causing a distinctive scent when they return to the station. The smell is so unusual that NASA reached out to a top fragrance maker to re-create the odor for its training simulations.
VMopm TIL that the first known juvenile to be sentenced to death and executed in the territory of today's United States was guilty of bestiality; Thomas Granger of the Plymouth Colony was hanged for sodomizing "a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheepe, two calves, and a turkey."
0w7OR TIL it’s suggested the older a man is when he fathers a child, the more likely the child will develop schizophrenia
4kAX TIL white chocolate isn’t technically chocolate, as it contains no cocoa solids or cocoa liquor.