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TIL Dave Chappelle based his character Clayton Bigsby (the black white supremacist) on his own blind grandfather.

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VVpD TIL some women are tetrachromats, with four color-receptive cones instead of the usual three. These women are able to distinguish colors that most of us simply cannot see.
4XBJ6 TIL Will Friedle - Eric on Boy Meets World - suffers an anxiety disorder that forced him to stop acting on-screen. Despite this his career continued via voice acting (starring in Batman Beyond and Kim Possible) and in 2015 felt comfortable enough to return to live-action for Girl Meets World
KQ5G TIL there is a whistle-blower known as Clare Francis (possibly a fake identity for multiple people) who is responsible for tipping off over 100 academic journals about suspected fraudulent research.
OGLOe TIL that the word "Sideburns" came from the American Civil War Union General, Ambrose Burnside's unusual facial hair. They were originally named "Burnsides", but this was later corrupted to the word "Sideburns" that we know today!
8a5oG TIL there are some 5,000 words, mostly nouns, that the Turkish borrowed from the French language (and quite a few English ones too). If you speak French to a conversational level and you'r a native English speaker, you could learn Turkish in a few weeks.