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TIL Metal Artist Dee Snider caught Congress Offguard with an articulate defense of his music & upset Al Gore with his comments about his wife.

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xVDKo TIL that there are 2,620 people on death row in the United States as of January 1, 2020.
XEOV6 TIL that in 1825, the panda was given its name by a French zoologist. 76 years later, the name was lent to a black and white bear that was mistakenly thought to be a close relative. The giant panda’s name stuck, and the original panda became the lesser or red panda.
6ryW TIL that the only ship left in the US Navy that has sunk an enemy ship is 218 years old
4X5e6 TIL That Mexican music was very popular in Yugoslavia during the '60s. With young people dressing up in mariachi outfits.
W7o64 TIL that scientist Lynn Margulis, famous for the idea that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-roaming prokaryotes, was at one time married to astronomer Carl Sagan.