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TIL that Fred Rogers is credited with the continued funding of PBS after he presented a passionate argument in front of the US Senate in May, 1969. This allowed healthy child development shows like 'Mr. Rogers Neighborhood' to be fully funded, along with the rest of PBS programming.

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