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TIL Tom Hardy reads bedtime stories for the BBC's series CBeebies

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d8XdB TIL Edward Dickinson Baker was serving as a U.S. Senator when the U.S. Civil War broke out and re-joined the Army as a colonel. He was killed in battle and remains the only sitting U.S. senator ever to be killed in a military engagement.
N71a6 TIL the U.S. has a region nicknamed "Cancer Alley" where 150+ petrochemical plants operate. Cancer rates there are 53.33% higher than the national average.
rWDW TIL a Michigan woman sued the makers of Drive because the film wasn’t as action packed as the trailers had described
E1Ywp TIL that Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it rhymes with "voice".
MoeA TIL During the Chernobyl meltdown, 3 people gave their lives diving in a radioactive pool, to open a pipe and prevent an explosion 10 times bigger than the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.