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TIL in 1899 the members of Barnam and Baileys Greatest Show on Earth "freak show" rebelled against being labelled as freaks and demanded a more appropriate name. This created major headlines and public debate across Britain where they were performing at the time.

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P1O0Z TIL Actor Steven Seagal released a reggae fusion album called Songs From the Crystal Cave, with one track featuring the actual lyrics “Me wan’ da poonani”
VlaQ TIL At Harvard, Neil Degrasse Tyson was criticized by a fellow African American economist major who told him that “Blacks in America do not have the luxury of your intellectual talents being spent on astrophysics”.
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mx1dE If it’s a particularly contagious virus, it would spread across the planet in a year. “If it starts in New York, it’s going to be in London certainly within a week,” says Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who uses computer models to analyze how viruses globe-trot. “And from there, it will quickly travel to the rest of North America and Europe.” For Longini’s computer forecasts to become reality, though, certain conditions would need to be met.
1a5aO TIL a koi fish named Hanako lived to be over 200 years old.