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TIL Tom Morello (RATM, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman) was born to a civil rights advocate and a Kenyan revolutionary. He also graduated from Harvard University.

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4kVNw TIL when Hall of Fame pitcher Mariano Rivera retired from MLB in 2013, Hard Rock Cafe "retired" Metallica's "Enter Sandman," Rivera's entrance music at Yankee Stadium, from their playlists at all of their locations worldwide, except at their Yankee Stadium location.
yQP4w TIL: that Voyager 1 is travelling so fast that it would take just over 5 minutes to travel from London to New York
yVQJe TIL John Wayne Gacy's brain was removed post-mortem and given to a Forensic Psychiatrist, who keeps it in her basement along with slices of all of his organs.
vjXx TIL Val Kilmer named one of his bison James Brown “because it likes to spin around in circles and looks like the kind of beast who might beat up his wife.”
p88RZ TIL that there is intra-Jewish racism within Israel. Israeli Jews of North African, Middle Eastern, Ethiopian, Yemeni, and Indian descent have faced discrimination, in favor of the European-descent Jews.