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TIL: CSPAN was created by the cable companies in 1979 as a free public service for all. Anyone could watch live our Congress doing their jobs. Now? C-SPAN requires verification of a cable or satellite subscription but hopes someday they can be free to the general public again.

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e0015 TIL Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragonball Z, got so angry at the movie adaptation Dragonball Evolution that he revived the series over 15 years after it originally ended.
0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
wo69W TIL of Orly the Matchmaker from Beverly Hills, who holds the record for most expensive dating service with membership fees that cost up to $200,000
WVMo TIL that the English word ‘assassin’ comes from the Arabic 'hashashin,’ or “hashish-eater,” the name of an 11th century Muslim sect that would intoxicate themselves with hashish before killing a person of public standing
VBYRD TIL There is a sushi chef in Tokyo that makes individual pieces of sushi with a single grain of rice