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PpkL TIL Matt Groening named the Simpsons family after his father Homer, mother Marge, and sister Lisa. Bart was an anagram of the word brat.
Q9ra TIL Bruce Lee left Hong Kong for Seattle in 1958 with nothing but $100 in his pocket. He gave cha cha lessons to first-class passengers to earn extra money during the ship ride to US.
8dgG TIL The White Ship disaster, 1120, in which drowned William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England, his half-sister Matilda, and his half-brother Richard, leading to a succession crisis and a period of civil war in England known as the Anarchy.
R7OW7 TIL a third of criminal convictions of women in the UK are for not paying for a TV Licence
J1a7V TIL the United States also gifted France with their own Statue of Liberty