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TIL Comedian Rodney Dangerfield was recognized by the Smithsonian Institution, which put one of his trademark white shirts and red ties on display. When he handed the shirt to the museum's curator, Rodney joked, "I have a feeling you're going to use this to clean Lindbergh's plane."

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Lkamm TIL about the Banu musa. A family of three golden age islamic scholars who are known for the “book of ingenious devices” which describes 100 inventions. The Banu Musa Brothers are credited with inventing the first music sequencer which was the earliest type of programmable machine.
5V0N8 TIL that Saturn's sixth-largest moon Enceladus is mostly covered by fresh, clean ice, making it the most reflective body in the Solar System. It shoots out water vapor, and other solid material totaling about 200 kilograms per second. Most of these materials supplies the making of Saturn's E ring.
Qbad TIL: The algorithms or “black boxes” used by some of the world’s top trading firms were “left to evolve” and have become so advanced nobody fully understands how they work.
rRyrd TIL In 1964, a Swedish art gallery displayed 4 paintings by unknown artist Pierre Brassau. Every single art critic praised the ‘avant-garde’ work- except one, who said, ‘only an ape could have done this’. In fact it was all a hoax by a journalist and 'Brassau’ was actually a 4-year-old chimpanzee.
QJkeE TIL that one of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier‘s famous quotes is “The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship” and after her husband John F Kennedy was assassinated she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis who is valued at $2.3 billion today