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TIL Robert Frost couldn't read the poem he wrote for John F. Kennedy's inauguration due to the glare on the snow being too strong. So he instead recited one he knew from memory.

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GZaj TIL Chris Farley was hired to voice Shrek and had finished 80-90% of his recording sessions at the time of his death
ZVYG TIL There is a cruise line that will start its very first around the world cruise that will last for 180 days starting in 2015.
px6A TIL that Hitler wasn’t the only Führer of Nazi Germany. After his suicide, the second Führer was former Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels from 30 April-1 May 45 (Goebbels’ suicide). The last Führer was Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk from 1 May-27 May 1945.
KO6xa TIL There are approximately 7000 languages and one dies every 14 days
e4L TIL James Earl Jones declined to have his name included in the credits of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, feeling his contributions were too insignificant.