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TIL Mr. Rogers made a point of mentioning out loud when he was feeding his fish after he got a letter from a family whose blind daughter asked him to do so, because she couldn’t tell if the fish were being fed.

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XERQ8 TIL a man once dared John P. Parker, an Underground Railroad conductor, to help his slaves escape. The man slept with the enslaved couple's baby in his room, knowing they wouldn't leave him behind. Parker snuck in, grabbed the baby & led everyone to freedom while the enslaver shot after them.
PY0G TIL that the squiggly lines you sometimes see in your field of vision is actually the debris of a vein that used to be there when you were a fetus.
a8J4o TIL Dateline journalist Keith Morrison was Matthew Perry's stepfather
bwpa TIL the most typical human on the planet is now a Han Chinese man who speaks Mandarin and has neither a car nor a bank account.
RNP7 TIL that the world’s shortest running TV show, Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos, was pulled off the air and cancelled halfway through it’s initial broadcast.