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TIL that Tim Curry has been wheelchair bound since having a stroke in 2013.

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RkD7 TIL that Jackie Robinson was not the first baseball player to break the color barrier. Nearly a full year earlier Eddie Klep became the first white man to play in the Negro Leagues.
OW56 TIL The screenwriter for “Battlefield Earth” publically apologized for writing such a bad movie saying, “comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.”
rRGbe TIL Ernesto Miranda, the man behind the ruling that forces cops to read your "Miranda" Rights, was later killed in a bar fight. The murderer was read his miranda rights, did not talk to the cops, and got away with no charges.
nmY TIL In Costa Rica streets aren’t named and houses aren’t numbered
9jyB TIL of Belphegor’s Prime. It’s a prime number that is also a palindrome. It’s named after the Prince of Hell for ingenious inventions because it contains two sets of 13 zeroes with 666 in the center. The palindromic prime number is 1000000000000066600000000000001.