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TIL the actual name of "Shaggy" from Scooby-Doo is Norville Rogers.

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jNXNN TIL That the director of The Shawshank Redemption bought the script from Stephen King for just $5,000 and could have sold it for $3 million after working on it for just 8 weeks to turn it into a movie script. Even though he was a first-time director, he refused and directed the movie himself.
BwDK TIL as John Adams lay dying, he remarked that Jefferson had outlived him, unaware that Jefferson had died hours earlier, on the 50th anniversary of the original Fourth of July
Me8ZB TIL there's a game released in 1987 that got it's most recent update to version 3.6.6 in 2020
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D154D TIL Nikola Tesla planned to make school children smarter and healthier by saturating them unconsciously with electricity, wiring the walls of a schoolroom with high-voltage lines. The plan was provisionally approved by then superintendent of New York City schools, William H. Maxwell.