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geckzilla wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 5:19 am
deGrasse Tyson is his whole last name, so you shoulda put D & dGT. I guess I can let it slide this time though.

• That's an old wives tale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson

<<Tyson was born in Manhattan as the second of three children, into a family living in the Bronx. His mother, Sunchita Maria Tyson (née Feliciano), was a gerontologist for the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and is of Puerto Rican descent. His African-American father, Cyril deGrasse Tyson (1927–2016), was a sociologist, human resource commissioner for New York City mayor John Lindsay, and the first Director of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited. Tyson has two siblings: Stephen Joseph Tyson and Lynn Antipas Tyson. Tyson's middle name, deGrasse, is from the maiden name of his paternal grandmother, who was born as Altima de Grasse in the British West Indies island of Nevis.>>