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TIL Matt Groening named the Simpsons family after his father Homer, mother Marge, and sister Lisa. Bart was an anagram of the word brat.
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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.
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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.
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TIL a third of criminal convictions of women in the UK are for not paying for a TV Licence
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TIL the United States also gifted France with their own Statue of Liberty