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TIL Actress Tippi Hedren and daughter Melanie Griffith used to live with a 400 pound pet lion

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QNLdd TIL Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.
R7756 TIL Harvard’s first black faculty member was a dentist. Dr. George Franklin Grant joined the Dept of mechanical dentistry in 1871. Also an inventor, he patented the wooden golf tee. Previously, golfers carried around buckets of sand, placing their balls on little piles as they went.
OogJe TIL that in the 1940s President Johnson,at the time a Congressman, used to drive around with a snake in his trunk because he believed black people were scared of snakes. He used to go to fuel stations get served by black guys and make them open the trunk and he was almost beaten with a tire iron
QZxM TIL: That there is an alternate timeline comics series in which Bruce Wayne is killed prompting his now insane mother to become a female Joker and his father to become a much darker and more violent Batman.
d88ZZ TIL: That that little jeans pocket inside your actual jeans pocket originaly was designed to protect cowboys watches.