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TIL about a Yale study revealing kids who watched "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" learned more and were generally more patient than those who watched "Sesame Street."

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Ax6d TIL the film Dick Tracy used a palette limited to just seven colors, primarily red, green, blue and yellow—to evoke the film’s comic strip origins; furthermore each of the colors was to be exactly the same shade.
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xjG7 TIL that Walter Mondale is the only person to have lost an election in all 50 States.