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TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson danced Ballet, Jazz, Afro-Carribean, and Latin Ballroom style while attending Harvard. He also won a gold medal in Latin Ballroom style with the University of Texas dance team

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5Y4Gk TIL of Thomas De Quincy, a 19th century opium addict whose memoir is responsible for the invention of 159 common words including earth-shattering, interconnection, incubator, entourage, subconscious and post-natal. He also popularised the term 'pipe dream'.
neY5G TIL: A major contributor to the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was an insane murderer who made submissions for several years before the editor attempted to visit him finding he lived in an asylum.
9wv7r TIL there's a real robotics company called Cyberdine and one of its robotic exeoskeleton suit is named HAL.
5N7p TIL that Patrick Stewart’s son, Daniel, plays Picard’s son in The Inner Light, in his alternative life on Kataan.
loZm5 TIL On April 1st, 2005, NASA pulled an April Fool’s prank telling the world that they had found water on Mars.