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TIL Anderson Cooper has no formal training as a journalist and interned at the CIA before taking up the profession

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5YyPr TIL Kelsey Grammer based Sideshow Bob's voice on actor Ellis Rabb, who he briefly worked for hanging wallpaper
8eEaa TIL that in 2017, the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired its backup thrusters for the first time in 37 years
QJ45M TIL that when Eisenhower planned to visit Japan in 1960, the government called on Yakuza bosses to lend tens of thousands of their men as security guards.
jRpE TIL that urban crows drop their nuts at pedestrian crossings so that car tyres run over and break them, wait until the green pedestrian light, then cross to eat the broken nut.
b9A09 TIL seahorse couples greet each other every morning with a dance, which sometimes involves changing colour. It is a way of reinforcing their bond and synchronising their reproductive cycles.