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TIL Madonna dated painter Jean-Michel Basquiat before she hit it big

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VBYG8 TIL - term "pachyderm", commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses is obsolete and no longer recognized.
OoNJa TIL Cats are not dogs! In Mild Disbelief
NXpVE TIL that US nuclear program was nearly delayed by moths by builders' strike at Red Gate Woods, forcing Compton and Fermi to construct first nuclear reactor under University of Chicago football stadium instead
XEb66 TIL that the New York Times has made some truly terrible predictions over the years, from Hitler being “not genuine” about anti-semitism, to approximating in 1903 that it would take between 1 - 10 million years before humans would create airplanes.
Jd64 TIL that “Bizarre Foods” host Andrew Zimmern was once a homeless alcoholic and drug addict, who lived on the streets of NYC for a year. It got so bad that he sprinked a bottle of Comet Cleanser around the place so that he could sleep without the rats and roached bothering him.