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TIL Captain Planet had an episode dealing with an HIV positive child voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, and Elizabeth Taylor voiced his mother

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grlZ9 TIL the Beatles’ record sales helped fund research that led to the development of CT scans (computerized tomography)
yVO8X TIL that no team has won the World Cup with a foreign coach. Only 2 foreign coaches have reached the final match: George Raynor of England, with Sweden in 1958, and Ernst Happel of Austria, with the Netherlands in 1978.
p7w8 TIL that Jack Johnson (the first ever African American heavyweight boxing champion) was pulled over for a $50 speeding ticket, but he gave the officer $100 telling him to keep the change as he was going to make the return trip at the same speed.
BXlL TIL in 2002, a 86 year old man was held 45min at the airport due to a strange metal item in his pocket that TSA couldn’t understand - it was a Medal of Honor.
6Ej7Y TIL of Bessie Coleman, the first African American and Native American female pilot who would only perform if the crowds were desegregated and entered thru the same gates.