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Til that Mr.Rogers basically saved all of pbs by speaking in front of congress about the importance of public access tv for kids learning

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LkErv TIL the story of Isaac Woodward. He was an African American WWII veteran who was badly beaten at a bus stop in 1946 for asking the driver to stop at a bathroom, blinding him in both eyes. His case brought the treating of veterans to light and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s
9Y1R6 TIL One of the more plausible theories regarding JFK's assassination is that he was accidentally shot by a Secret Service agent reacting to Lee Harvey Oswald but fell down with an AR-15 in his hand when the follow-car he was in jolted forward
GALD1 TIL that in Nepal, Kukur Tihar is a festival that honors dogs and pampers them as a sign of gratitude.
9wpG TIL a muslim wikipedia editor contributed to 8,115 separate Wikipedia articles with over 67,000 edits until being caught in 2010, focusing efforts on improving the image of Islam and downplaying the achievements of the Western world, misrepresentations which were then reproduced all over the net.
n7bG TIL that you cannot work in Antarctica unless your wisdom teeth and appendix are removed