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TIL before 1975, the BBC overwrote or destroyed old show tapes. Hundreds of Doctor Who episodes were thought lost forever, until a worldwide hunt began to turn them up—e.g. 2 in a London Mormon Church, and a goldmine 9 in Nigeria (employees had ignored instructions to burn them). 97 remain unfound.

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p7VG TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev chose to not have his birthmark removed, because he believed the public would perceive him as being more concerned with his appearance than other more important issues.
MMka TIL that Mr. Rogers, after discovering that his limo driver was stuck waiting in the car, invited him to enter a PBS exec’s house. Later, Rogers entertained the driver’s family with jazz piano.