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TIL Maya Rudolph (actress and comedian) is Minnie Riperton’s (famous singer) daughter!

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6EdNZ TIL the word Gymnasium comes from the Greek word Gymnazein which means to exercise naked.
1m7D TIL In 1994 IBM created and sold the Simon Personal Communicator, it was the first cellular phone to include telephone and PDA features in one device.
6E6gw TIL The earliest e-cigarette can be traced to American Herbert A. Gilbert, who in 1963 patented "a smokeless non-tobacco cigarette" that involved "replacing burning tobacco and paper with heated, moist, flavored air". This device produced flavored steam without nicotine.
ADE7 TIL that the Danish King Harald Blatand ate so many blueberries that his teeth stained blue. “Bluetooth” is named after him because of his ability to unite warring Scandinavian factions, just as Bluetooth unites wireless devices. The Bluetooth logo is also a combination of the Kings Runic initials.
6PDl TIL in America, a recurring joke in Futurama is that French is a dead language by the 31st century; in the French dub, however, German is the dead language.