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TIL actor Sorrell Booke, who played Boss Hogg on The Dukes of Hazard, spoke 12 languages, was a Korean War Counterintelligence Officer, valedictorian officer of his high school class, earned degrees from Columbia and Yale, and weighed under 200 pounds wearing a fat suit for the TV show

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DQ09Y TIL that the longest golf ball drive was hit in 1992 by Carl Cooper – 787 yards at the 1992 Texas Open.
xV4E0 TIL the Outerbridge Crossing, connecting Staten Island to Perth Amboy, was not named so because it's the outermost bridge in NYC, but in honor of the first chairman of the Port Authority of NY and NJ, Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge
aAVM TIL that Elvis Costello once drunkenly referred to Ray Charles as a “blind, ignorant nigger”. Charles forgave him, saying “drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.”
JYogj TIL that it's safe to walk barefoot in New York City. Wounds to a naked foot are less severe as you feel a sharp object early enough to pull their foot back before it can penetrate too deeply. A barefoot enthusiast says: I've stepped on three nails, twice with boots and once without.Hurts either way
nnGG TIL a person who takes a sexually explicit photo of someone under age 18, even if it’s a self-portrait, can be charged with producing child pornography, a felony with a prison sentence of up to 20 years