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TIL that Leonard Nimoy refused to participate in Star Trek: The Animated Series unless George Takei and Nichelle Nichols were included, emphasizing their roles as symbols of ethnic diversity in the 23rd century.

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JYlkk TIL of Paddy the Wanderer, a beloved stray Airedale Terrier from Wellington, New Zealand who befriended workers, cabbies, and seamen; sometimes stowing away on visiting ships (said to have crossed Tasman Sea many times).
b9Pda TIL There is an infallible conspiracy (cannot be disproven) called Last Thursdayism that simply states that the world was created last thursday
B0PL TIL More money is put into incarceration than education
6Emel TIL that Argentina had the world's highest GDP per capita in the 1890's and was in the top fifteen wealthiest economies till the 1950's
GYQQ5 TIL Zoroastrianism, a minority religion today in Iran, is one of the world's oldest religions still in existence, pre-dates the birth of both Christianity and Islam by centuries, and was once the official religion of the Persian Empire.