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TIL Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks played herself in an episode of Touched By An Angel in 1999

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Mo0K TIL: The Canadian government staged a large-scale Nazi invasion of Winnipeg in 1942 to promote war bonds: citizens were arrested at random, armed “German” troops searched cars and buses, businesses were raided for supplies and Union flags were torn down and replaced with the flag of the Nazi Party.
VMXVD TIL that Trader Joe's has a "try before you buy" policy - where employees will open nearly ANYTHING for you to sample
xV5Jo TIL actor Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean, Johnny English) has a masters degree in a Electrical Engineering from University of Oxford.
REjl TIL: George Leutz holds the high score for Q*bert. He played for eighty-four hours and forty-eight minutes. He scored 37,163,080 points.
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