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TIL Walking Dead intentionally hires actors from the Wire, because the Walking Dead creator was a huge fan of the Wire.

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m15Py TIL that famous children’s author Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalks Ends, The Giving Tree) wrote Johnny Cash’s famous song A Boy Named Sue.
VBkrk TIL that in 1957, the town of Pleasanton, Texas voted overwhelmingly to desegregate its public schools. The vote (and entirely peaceful subsequent integration of African American students) bewildered the press and gained national attention as it occurred around the same time as the Little Rock Nine.
QJav9 TIL: That the 11/4/1954 is 'The most boring day in history'.
kOW0W TIL Chief Justice Fred Wilson, who presided the Brown v Board of Education trial initially, was holding the opinion that the Plessy v Ferguson verdict should stand. He died in September 1953 and replaced by Earl Warren. Warren made the Racial Segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
OoGkR TIL that Goku from Dragonball Z is voiced by an 80 year old woman named Masako Nozawa in the Japanese voice acting.