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TIL that the voice of AOL (the guy who said “You’ve Got Mail!”) was only ever paid $200.00 for his work and gets zero residuals or royalties. He now drives for Uber.

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4krMw TIL a town in India is addicted to chess after one man taught everyone how to play 50 years ago to eliminate excessive alcohol consumption and gambling, which has now all decreased to nearly nothing.
PRDw TIL that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children recommends that children OF ANY AGE should not be permitted to use public restrooms alone.
EZB7 TIL that the first scripted inter-racial kiss on US television (Star Trek) was meant to be filmed with and without the kiss. Shatner and Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of the shot without the kiss so that they could not be used.
GAoxQ Today I learned about the 20 year old Belgian man who died from eating 5 day old spaghetti.
mxG1p TIL in 1965. 6 boys from a catholic school were shipwrecked on a deserted island named 'Ata after a storm took their stolen boat out to sea for 8 days. They found the ruins of Kolomaile, a 19th century village in a volcanic crater, surviving off feral chickens, wild taro and banana for 15 months,