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TIL Steve Harvey sent a television for Christmas every year to the Teacher Who Said He'd Never Be on Television.

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7rbjx TIL that the world's oldest prosthetic device, an artificial wooden toe was found on a 3,000-year-old mummy of an Egyptian woman in 1997. Now, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland have learned a great deal about how the toe functioned, what it's made of, and how it was fabricated.
YpR1P TIL A man spent 12 years in a coma but was completely aware and awake the entire time.
xZm5 TIL “Disney’s Math Quest: Aladdin”, with Robin Williams as the voice of Genie, is the only video game he has ever done voice work for.
nAD7 TIL in 1995, McDonald’s asked Greenpeace activists to stop criticizing their company publicly and instead do it only in private with their friends. Activists said they’d agree if McDonald’s stopped advertising its products and instead only recommended their restaurants privately to friends.
DBxY TIL Sophie Walton, former slave girl and house servant to the Holiday family, taught a young Doc Holiday how to manipulate cards.