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TIL 'Tainted Love' was originally produced by Gloria Jones

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neVA9 TIL that Mister Rogers was bullied as a child. "I used to cry to myself when I was alone," he said. "And I would cry through my fingers and make up songs on the piano." As he grew up, he decided to always look past the surface of people to the "essential invisible" within them.
7rxkx TIL of the lost auto-biographical film starring Pancho Villa which incorporated live battle footage from the Mexican Revolution.
QNKna TIL This woman created a Rotary Cell Phone.
VBdEB TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.
5pQ8 TIL that Lil Wayne was saved at 12 years old by a white police officer named Uncle Bob. “He was white as snow…my life was saved by a white man. I don’t know what racism is. I know a good mother fucker named Uncle Bob though”