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TIL that actor Robert Reed hated playing Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch as he saw it as beneath his Shakespearean training. He often clashed with producers over the script. Despite this he got along very well with the rest of the cast and appeared in the show's spinoffs and sequels.

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kOgnd TIL it's possible for a bot to trick the Turing Test into thinking it's human simply by claiming a foreign mother-tongue
4X94w TIL of the Korean TV programme, 'Finding Dispersed Families', that aired in 1983 and was responsible for reuniting over 10,000 Koreans with family that they had lost during the Korean War. Originally planned to be 95 minutes, the programme went on to run for 453 hours, with over 53,000 participants.
06Lv TIL that the best way to cure intractable hiccups is with a rectal massage
0dG6A TIL, Anna Jarvis, who founded Mother's Day in 1908 (in America), passionately opposed its growing commercialization and eventually campaigned against the holiday.
N7BRb TIL in 2013 a piece of landing gear from one of the 9/11 flights was found wedged between two buildings in NYC.