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TIL Crosswalk "push to walk" buttons in cities like New York no longer control traffic lights, yet pedestrians keep pressing them because it feels like control

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XEnX6 TIL that in the biopic ‘You don’t know Jack’ the original euthanasia consultations tapes were used, Dr Jack Kevorkian was replaced using computer image technology to insert Al Pacino into the scene where Kevorkian would’ve been.
8pm8 TIL: Waldo Of “Where’s Waldo” is actually named wally and is only called Waldo in the US and Canada
woG7P TIL about Raton, a celebrity fighting bull who killed three people during bullfighting in 2006-2011; this made him highly paid since his fans followed him to different cities to see him fight.
1ApP TIL “The Wonder Years” hasn’t been released on DVD because rights to Joe Cocker’s version of “With a Little Help From My Friends” could never be secured. Netflix and Amazon use an alternate version of the song.
kOm7B TIL that 63 years after its launch on March 17, 1958, Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite still orbiting Earth. Weighing only 3.2 pounds and with a diameter of 6.5 inches, Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, derided it as "the grapefruit satellite".