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

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abg0 TIL, in honor of a 1982 The Far Side comic, the spiked end of a stegosaurus’s tail is referred to by paleontologists as the “Thagomizer”.
epMmn TIL that the Primaries that got Lyndon B. Johnson to the Senate were rigged
Q4a TIL the transplanted lungs didn’t come from the Aurora Colorada victim
dD6p8 TIL that Einstein was an accomplished violinist and often played to relax and think. His violin was fetched upward of half a million at New York auction.
wLLLM TIL James Watson (co-discoverer of the structure of DNA), had to auction off his Nobel Prize Medal due to poverty. A Russian billionaire bought it for $4.1M and returned it stating, “a situation in which an outstanding scientist has to sell a medal recognising his achievements is unacceptable.”