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TIL Mr. Rogers joined Television because he hated it and decided to change it.

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0ny1 TIL that Robert Liston is the only surgeon to have a 300% mortality rate - the patient, the surgical assistant and a spectator all died
ODP7 TIL in 1920 the US Army bombed coal miners in WV who were striking for better treatment and living conditions
jNK0M TIL that there were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.
X0DE6 TIL Kane Hodder appeared in character as Jason Voorhees on the Arsenio Hall show in 1989 to promote "Jason Takes Manhattan", being interviewed as if Jason was a real killer. He remained silent throughout the interview.
B9pd TIL: In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran a feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV. The piece claimed that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection and went on to state that “most heterosexuals are not at risk”.