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TIL that DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy on ‘Star Trek’) had wanted to become a doctor, but could not afford medical school. He received many letters from fans who went into medicine because of his character: “To influence the youth of the country … is an award that is not handed out by the industry”.

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VMvEk TIL Shock G and Humpty Hump from Digital Underground are the same person.
7RX TIL Baseball and Cricket are the only major sports where the defense has the ball
9wW0B TIL not only were soldiers banned from entering ancient Rome, weapons were banned from the inner city borders as well
N7DE6 TiL: There's a mutant who has been on the X-men for several years, but nobody at all ever remembered due to his power of immediately forgetting he existed once he leaves your point of view.
9D4D TIL in Feb, 2000, 60 Minutes did an exposé on “Echelon,” a top secret data collection program that vacuums up vast amounts of communications worldwide. Democracies usually have laws against spying on citizens, but Frost says Echelon members could ask other members to spy on their citizens for them