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TIL Minnie Riperton wrote the song, “Lovin’ You (is easy ‘cause you’re beautiful)” for her baby daughter…who grew up to be SNL cast member, Maya Rudolph

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LQGjP TIL Christmas lights were invented in 1882 by Edward H. Johnson, an assistant of Thomas Edison.
k6yg TIL that the word ‘Bookkeeper’, and its variations, is the only unhyphenated word to contain 3 consecutive double letters
O1Gg TIL Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, refused to accept an honorary degree from Yale and refused to allow his picture on the cover of Time, out of respect for AA’s principle of anonymity.
o7Z8 TIL when the liver fails to produce bile your poop doesn’t get the regular brown pigments so it becomes white
Wmpo TIL that the United States has not ratified the Rome Statute, that makes Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Crimes of Aggression international crimes.