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TIL that George Washington had two stepchildren but no biological children

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Yyd7 TIL Spock’s “Live Long and Prosper” Vulcan hand gesture will soon be available to use as an emoji, just like ?, ✌, and ?. It was officially added to Unicode last year.
x61Yo TIL of the field recordings of Alan Lomax, a folklorist. He travelled recording a wide spectrum of musical performances, stories, jokes and personal narratives for the US Library of Congress in the 1930s. His life's work is now digitally archived.
9006 TIL BB King was a licensed pilot and flew to his own gigs up until age 70.
gMGvL TIL in ancient Sri Lanka, they used winds driven by the yearly monsoons to power some of the first steel-making furnaces to produce what's called Wootz Steel.
O9mL TIL in TRON, Jeff Bridges had too much of a bulge in the crotch area of his computer outfit that he had to wear a dance belt to conceal it.