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TIL that the cofounder and CEO of Patreon, Jack Conte, is a musician and maintains an active career in the indie band Pomplamoose. The band formed in 2008 with himself and singer/bassist Nataly Dawn, who would later become his wife

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X0DNE TIL The longest word in the English language, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica particles.
voM7 TIL of Dr. Howard Jones, who in 1978 was forced into retirement due to rigid age restrictions for surgeons at Johns Hopkins. Rather than end his medical career, Jones moved to Virginia, where in 1981 at the age of 70, he performed the first IVF case in the U.S. He died in 2015 at the age of 104.
PyvV TIL That Pinning A Safety Pin To Your Shirt Was A Symbol Used By Gay Men To Indicate They Wanted To Have Safe Sex.
l7OZ5 TIL that when Fox Sports president David Hill introduced a score bug as part of its NFL coverage, he received a death threat from an irate viewer, with a specific emphasis on him being a "foreigner"
Z88oa TIL the velociraptors from Jurassic Park were actually suits worn by actors, and not an animatronic or CGI.