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TIL of "Freddish" - Mr. Rogers' carefully crafted set of rules for talking to children, designed to keep kids from taking things too literally or becoming unnecessarily scared

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vbxx TIL there was a punishment called “Derby’s dose”, in which “[A] runaway [slave] would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into their open wounds. Another slave would defecate into the mouth of the miscreant, who would then be gagged for hours.”
l7o8N TIL that, for close to a decade, Universal Pictures didn't know it owned the merchandising rights to the film Darkman (1990). It wasn't until toy-maker SOTA asked for a license to make a Darkman action figure that Universal finally looked into it and found out it had owned the rights all along.
BrkLr TIL that Sir David Attenborough reached 1 million followers on Instagram in four hours and 44 minutes, breaking the world record, previously owned by Jennifer Aniston, who reached 1 million followers in five hours and 16 minutes
DQYMg TIL that during the 17th century, coffeehouses were so popular in England that they were often referred to as "Penny Universities". For the price of a penny, one could buy a cup of coffee and engage in stimulating conversation on a wide range of topics, from politics to literature.
vPYd7 TIL: The Crown (2021), Schitt's Creek (2020) and Angels in America (2003) are the only programs to win all seven of their respective major Emmy categories in one year - directing, writing, all four acting categories and overall series.