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TIL that more people have stood on the moon than have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon

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oBBYE TIL Before being offered the role of Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins had quit Hollywood to go back to England, feeling that the rest of his mediocre career would be spent on stage and "doing respectable BBC work."
WkEVo TIL fast food chains are banned in Bermuda under the Foreign Restaurants Act of 1977, with the exception of one KFC that was grandfathered in
P1EZg TIL Edmund Kemper helped a nonprofit called Volunteers of Vacaville in reading/recording books for blind people to listen to. He logged over 5000 hours between 1977-1987 but stopped in 2015 after a stroke.
OREg TIL: That Hey Arnold originally started out as a series claymation shorts on Sesame Street.
4X76b TIL Helen Keller was a librarian at public and college libraries including Drexel Institute and Columbia University and authored The Reader's Digest of Books.