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TIL that Stephen Colbert is a Sunday school teacher

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4X98g TIL of the Warren Harding Effect - when we make unconscious assumptions about a person or people and hang on to them even when presented with evidence to the contrary. In the early 1920s, Warren Harding looked so presidential that voters were fooled into thinking he’d make a good president.
XVbR TIL Meredith Gardner, a codebreaker was able to work out that more than 200 American citizens were Soviet agents between 1930 and 1945. One of the spies was William Weisband, who was one of Gardner colleagues on the project, and had told the Soviets as soon as the code was broken.
N7JgN TIL the creator of "The Wizard of Speed and Time" (1988) also did the visual effects for the movie "Ghost" (1990)
dYr7 TIL James Franco, a non-smoker, took up smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, learned to ride a motorcycle and play guitar, and cut himself off from his loved ones, all to prepare for his role as James Dean.
EP90 TIL that a calculator and a radio can be taped together to make a metal detector that really works!