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TIL that Charles Goodell, father of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, was chosen to fill Robert F. Kennedy's Senate seat after his assassination.

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0w6jA TIL in 1982, rocker Billy Idol was staying at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. After Idol destroyed his room, the police arrived, and a naked Idol surrendered. He later learned they were not there for him, but were investigating the recent overdose death of John Belushi, who died that same night.
P1ZJJ TIL that the QWERTY keyboard was set up so that the top row has all the letters needed to spell typewriter
78Z4Z TIL that the guppy fish was named after British-born naturalist Lechmere Guppy
e0mD5 TIL that many media outlets downplay reports of suicide to avoid "Suicide contagion," the phenomenon of vulnerable individuals seeing the action normalised and believing that they should be the ones to do it next.
oBO6o TIL researchers are able to predict the long-term success of professional Wall Street investors by analyzing their genomes.