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TIL Mr Rogers poured the 100 billionth Crayola crayon

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oRv4L TIL: Of Charles Osborne, who had hiccups for 68 years
4kD86 TIL that Aldabra, a coral atoll in the Seychelles, has the biggest population of giant tortoises in the world, at 100,000.
0w6Ev TIL of Norman Morrison, who was a Quaker that set himself on fire under Robert McNamaras office in the pentagon. He was protesting the innocent lives that were being taken in Vietnam at the time. The city Da Nang has road named after Morrison in memory of his acts against the US-Vietnam conflict.
xQ77 TIL that in 1932, 15,000 World War I veterans set up camp throughout Washington DC to force Congress to immediately pay their bonus. They were forcibly removed by tanks and cavalry.