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TIL David Yost, the Blue Power Ranger in the original “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” quit because of excessive homophobic harassment he endured on set from the production crew

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DQ0be TIL - After the USS White Sands was decommissioned in 1974, a company then bought it and had to move the ship with an 81' beam through the 80'-wide Ballard Locks. It was done by weighing down one side of the ship and then transiting the locks while tilted 38 degrees, at high tide.
DMRP TIL that a patent on raising a sunken ship by pumping it full of buoyant balls was denied because of prior art in a 1949 Donald Duck comic
N7oVb TIL About Weight Loss Challenge with $10,000 Prize
eZ8g TIL Cookie Monster is allergic to peanut butter cookies and hazelnut cookies according to the 1978 special “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.”
w5E8 TIL the oldest surviving Union Civil War Veteran lived to see the end of the Korean War