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TIL Bill Murray tossed a producer into a lake during the filming of “What about Bob.” He also “threatened to throw her across the parking lot, then broke her sunglasses and threw them across the parking lot.”

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ZpyDG TIL about Tetrachromats - people with a special receptor in their retinas that allow them to see millions of colors that most of us can’t distinguish!
6EZ0l TIL in 1940, a 14 year old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking "If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green American, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them."
YpEjB TIL Child labor in the United States was largely ended by a photographer named Lewis Wickes Hine. He took child laborers photos at eye level to humanize and personalize each child. He captured nearly identical pictures across the country to show lawmakers this was a systemic problem.
16pDD TIL in 1990 a printer for the U.S. Naval Academy put the word “navel” on the graduates’ diplomas.
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