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TIL A rare photo of Amelia Earhart shows her riding a scooter in the 1930s with a published caption reading, “In the near future, we are told, no one will walk at all."

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wb7J TIL The cast of Office Space reunited in 2009 for the 10th anniversary of the film and destroyed a printer on the sidewalk of the Paramount Theatre
gMM78 TIL that the creators of Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, & The Flintstones offered Jack Nicholson a job as an animator when he was 17 years old. He turned them down.
J1mj4 TIL with his dad totally against it, 19-yr-old Fabio Lanzoni moved to the US & within 48 hrs of arriving he walked into the Ford modeling agency without an appointment & walked out with a $150K contract. The next day he was hired for the launch of Gap Inc. Then began to pose for 15 book covers a day
Z8Z8Y TIL that 18th Century stereotype of the "lazy southerner" was caused by widespread hookworm infections, which caused poor southerners to be lethargic, malnourished, stunted, and mentally retarded.
KOob4 TIL that in 1998 grade school children in Aurora, Colorado, collect $35,000 to purchase and free slave children in Sudan.