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TIL George Takei did the voice of Phoebe’s father on Hey Arnold!

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eAw5 TIL that during WWII, there was an independent committee that rooted out corruption and profiteering. It is credited with saving 14bn dollars and thousands of lives - yet frequent calls for a modern version have not been heard.
xVAmw TIL Folk Singer Phil Ochs was paranoid that the FBI was spying on him, saying, "I'm a folk singer for the FBI" in 1966. In reality the FBI had hundreds of pages on file, but Ochs never committed a federal crime. He continued to be under investigation until his death by suicide in 1976.
W7ZyB TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud's birth name was Sigismund Schlomo Freud
9wLvQ TIL JFK’s last words were “No, they sure can’t” in response to Nellie Connally, First Lady of Dallas, who remarked “Mr. President, they can’t make you believe now that there are not some in Dallas who love you and appreciate you, can they?”
oBwxW TIL the iPhone clock app displays the actual current time