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TIL Fred Gwynne [a.k.a. Herman Munster] wrote and illustrated children’s books. He once said the only thing he ever dreamed of being was a portrait artist.

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KYgZQ TIL the first publicly transmitted live trans-Atlantic program was broadcast via the Telstar satellite on July 23, 1962, at 3:00 pm EDT with Walter Cronkite as one of the main presenters in the multinational broadcast that included the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower.
PYPrG TIL that the Nazi Party was particularly fond of decaffeinated coffee, as it saw caffeine as a poison that "threatened the Aryan Race."
nWjKr TIL about a Chinese man named Zhao C (赵Ｃ), who was forced to change his name when he was 22 years old because it included a Latin character, which is not "part of the national standard for "numbers and symbols" of the People's Republic of China"
xej1 TIL in the original game of Clue, Mr. Green was actually called Reverend Green. The name was changed because they felt Americans would be upset at the idea of a priest being a murderer.
QJBa6 TIL that the science of bite-mark comparisons, ballistic comparisons, fingerprint matching, blood-spatter analysis, arson investigation and other common forensic techniques have been tainted by systematic error, cognitive bias (tunnel vision) and little or no research or data to support it.