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TIL That Dwane The Rock Johnson started his career in WWE with the name “Rocky Maivia”

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7rk7b TIL Alexander Graham Bell was a eugenicist and despite being married to a deaf woman, tried to prevent the use of ASL, in favor of Oralism, and tried to prevent the deaf from marrying each other.
yQMZJ TIL in the 1970s, AMC released a special edition Levi's denim-branded Gremlin, with a faux-denim interior and copper rivets instead of seat buttons
OGD57 TIL of Rod Temperton, the man who wrote Thriller for Michael Jackson
PYoWG TIL Tu Youyou, a Chinese Nobel Laureate, discovered a treatment for malaria by reading an ancient Daoist text from 340 CE describing an herbal remedy for "intermittent fevers"
xJLD TIL Director Stanley Kubricks personal assistant was assigned many tasks including cutting fresh grass each day, laying it on the carpet for Kubricks cat to roll in, then vacuuming up the grass afterwards.