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TIL that Regina Rhode was a student at both Columbine High and Virginia Tech during both shootings

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pYDDA TIL that actor Lance Henriksen (Aliens/Terminator) also makes and sells pottery.
mxOGo TIL Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most politically active women of the 20th Century. She campaigned civil rights in the early 1930’s, regularly spoke on behalf of her husband and pressed the US to join the United Nations. She eventually remodeled the meaning of ‘First Lady’.
0dg5N TIL the IBM computer Deep Thought was named after the computer in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
aDb9 Today I learned that Chocolate Milk was invented in Ireland
4XaZo TIL the idea for the Guinness Book of World Records was conceived when Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery) attended a party in Ireland in the early 1950s, where he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe* and failed to find an answer in any reference book.