Lost in the Surf

So, did you know that Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Or, that Iggy Pop was born James Newell Osterberg, Jr.

What about Tina Turner? (Anna Mae Bullock.)

Or, most awkwardly, John Denver? (Henry John Deutschendorf.)

The Internet is a source of so much information that one can be forgiven if (s)he gets lost in it all.

* Chimps use kisses and hugs to comfort one of their members who has just gotten pushed around.

* Thomas Jefferson is widely believed to have fathered one child with his slave, Sally Hemmings. But the records indicate she had six children, though she never married. Was he the father of all of them?

* The Mars probe has found a mysterious white substance on the Red Planet. Is it ice or salt or a compound we've never before encountered?

(Answers when we find them.)

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