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TIL Christoper Reeve starred in a movie called “Above Suspicion” where he played a paraplegic. Just two days after the film was released, he suffered the famous horse riding accident leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.

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VB0dG TIL Phil Hartman, former SNL member and The Simpsons voice actor, designed over 40 album covers including Steely Dan's iconic Aja cover
v1NpL TIL that more than 40% of Americans have less than $400 in their bank for emergency expenses.
rRdPx TIL that Eddie Murphy released a song called "Yeah," which featured vocals from Michael Jackson, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi, Barry White, and others. The nearly 5-minute long song consists entirely of Murphy and the guest vocalists singing variations of the word "yeah."
W7Y6N TIL about Tropic-Ana, an early Tropicana orange juice mascot. A little tropical girl carrying a bowl of oranges on her head, she was based on the four-year-old playmate of the logo artist's son. Christine Pool appeared at corporate events and a TV commercial until she accidentally cut off her braid.
l7517 TIL France detonated its 1st atomic bomb, the Blue Jerboa, on Feb. 13, 1960 in Saharan Algeria. This was the 1st of 17 nuclear weapons detonations that occurred in the area between 1960 & 1966. The Blue Jerboa was 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.