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TIL that before Neil deGrasse Tyson went on The Daily Show, he paid attention to how many sentences Jon Stewart usually allowed before interrupting. He picked up on the kind of phrases Stewart liked to pick up on, which is why he described astronomy using sexually suggestive language.

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GAmxN TIL Alarmed by the spread of Christianity, Roman Emperor Domitian sought and brought for questioning Jesus' grandnephews, the grandson's of his brother "by flesh". They claimed to own just one piece of land, which they worked by themselves, so Domitian let them go, deeming them insignificant
4keEb TIL that Efren Reyes decided to use an alias in 1985 to throw off players from avoiding him. Instead of going by his real name, he used the name of his best friend, Cesar Morales, and surprised players at the Red's Open 9-Ball Tournament in Houston, Texas.
1vxD TIL that in May 1959, when Billie Holiday was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York with liver and heart disease, she was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying. Her hospital room was raided by police and she remained under police guard until her death in July.
epBkb TIL the ice cream truck jingle most Americans grew up with was used in minstrel shows, so RZA (of Wu-Tang Clan) created a new, publicly-available ice cream jingle
WEl8 TIL that Teddy Roosevelt advocated women’s suffrage in his senior thesis (1880) making one of his professors say he was too influenced by feeling to be entirely masculine