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TIL Descendents of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr re-enacted their ancestors famous duel 200 years later

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XQ66 TIL That Seann William Scott’s mother likes to go into Best Buy and ask “Do you have American Pie? I’m Stifler’s mom”.
GYKvG TIL Rick Allen, the drummer from Def Leppard, lost an arm in a car accident in 1984. He thought he would never play again until a friend noticed him tapping his foot while listening to music and offered to develop a specially designed electronic foot pedal. He returned to the band in 1986.
5Wvk TIL Mark Zuckerberg once said, “People actually trust me… dumb fucks”.
GAw8j TIL that Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo - today would have been Stephen’s 83rd birthday
69QWX TIL: The autocorrect feature in Excel, which converts certain combinations into dates, has mangled up to 30% of published papers, causing significant issues. As a result, at least 27 gene symbols have been forced to change to prevent further errors from occurring.