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TIL that actor Hume Cronyn's father has an asteroid named after him (12050-Humecronyn)

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9dAp TIL During the 2001 Presidential Clinton-Bush transition, 62 new White House staff discovered the W key missing from their keyboards
0oe1 TIL a group of stingrays is called a fever.
8MlK TIL that the Mongols’ military tactics were so fierce that they would catapult diseased corpses over city walls to infect the population and even rerouted rivers after a city had fallen so that it could never rise again
lA8K TIL Derreck Kayongo collected barely-used bars of soap from hotels, melted them together, and distributed them to poor countries. He’s the founder of the Global Soap Project, which improves access to basic sanitation and reduces disease and child mortality.
X01yr TIL that the Illuminati conspiracy was invented in the 60s by some hippie anarchist Playboy writers as a social experiment/hoax and that they thought no one would ever believe something so absurd as a Bavarian secret society controlling the world...