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TIL on the hit TV show Happy Days, The Fonz originally wasn't allowed to wear a leather jacket. Not wanting Fonzie to be depicted as a hoodlum, executives put him in a windbreaker in the beginning.

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R7wZw Today I learned that Bryan Ware created the Crayon Initiative that collects used crayons from restaurants and melts them down to make new crayons for children's hospitals.
nelBb TIL that 30 million live in caves in China
MeEVm TIL that because of the skin affect and the relatively high frequency of the plasma created by a tesla coil, and the low current. You can touch the output of a small coil, and instead of it going through you, shocking you, it will pass over your skin into the ground
yQraX TIL That Big Whisky, Wyoming (the setting of Unforgiven, 1992) was built on a prairie in Canada, and was complete with real buildings and working appliances, built from the ground up by the crew just for the film.
jNbVR TIL after finding that 66% of teens have chronic sleep deprivation, the CDC has started recommending later start times for schools