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TIL that the No Child Left Behind Act was responsible for canceling the TV show Reading Rainbow.

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W7wQ8 TIL that after being thrown off a chairlift by a mentally ill man the victim waited 7 hours to report the crime because he didn’t want it to ruin his powder day
rN5De TIL the image of a ninja dressed all in black comes from the convention of depicting ninjas as wearing the costume of stagehands in Japanese kabuki theater
6Eklm TIL: The same night Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy birthday, Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, she reportedly gave him a Rolex Day-Date with the inscription “JACK, with love as always from MARILYN, May 29th 1962.” JFK told an aide to “get rid of it,”
oRM1E TIL that on the planet Mercury there is a crater named after George Balanchine because it looks like one of his tutus.
NDne TIL a Master-Level NY Baker claims he was fired after reporting to his employer the that flour used for making bread was infested with insects. His boss told him to just go ahead and use the infested flour for multi-grain bread, presumably because customers would not be concerned about the crunch.