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TIL the first attempt at a Thomas the Tank Engine TV series came as a live broadcast. The show was a disaster, with the model trains jerking around until a train derailed, and a crew member's hand visibly put it back on track. This caused so much embarrassment that the show was immediately cancelled

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EZZX TIL that Whoopi Goldberg was in a movie where she played a leather-wearing police officer who had an overweight Tyrannosaurs Rex as a partner.
rNeMy TIL, Kevin Conroy the voice of Batman was living in NYC during 9/11 and after the attack was a volunteer cooking meals for responders. When told, the people eating the food called BS and demanded he prove it. When he did it did a lot for the mood. Because he's Batman.
lorL5 TIL the furthest point anyone can be from any sea on Earth is the Gurbantünggüt Desert in China which is over 1600 miles from the nearest coastline
X097k TIL in March 2000, Conan O'Brien did a remote on his Late Night show exploring an advertising firm. While taping it, he met and fell in love with Liza Powel, an employee at the firm. They have been married since 2002 and have two children.
7rwbZ TIL of Gary Plauche, a man who shot his son’s child molester to death in a Baton Rouge airport in 1984. The incident was captured on video by a news television camera.