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TIL Kenya’s national motto is “Harambe”

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7M5O TIL After working with Tom Cruise on the movie Collateral, Jada Pinkett, together with her husband Will Smith, donated $20.000 to a scientology homeschooling program and funded a scientology-affiliated private elementary school.
epPD5 TIL that Pope Adrian II (who ruled from 867 to 872) lived in the Lateran Palace with his wife Stephania and his daughter until they were murdered by a relative of the Papal librarian
Ev90 TIL that the term Peeping Tom comes from when Lady Godiva, an Earl’s wife, tried to convince him to lower the heavy taxes on the poor. He told her that he would if she rode through town naked. When she did it, the townsfolk all averted their eyes out of courtesy; except for one tailor named Tom.
PYV7L TIL that the woman who played Vera Webster in Superman III was also an accomplished singer. Probably saw that movie a hundred times as a kid and never knew this.
6EpO7 Today I learned that there are flocks of feral parakeets in the United Kingdom