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Today I learned that Count von Count from Sesame Street has hypnotic powers, but only used them in two episodes.

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KOmx6 TIL Texas had a female governer in the 1920s
6EGQX TIL that whale meat was the single biggest source of meat in Japan from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. Whaling only took off in the country as a result of a food shortage after World War II.
wL8NM TIL that Tupac Shakur auditioned to play the role of Mace Windu in Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
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gBJL TIL that Bob Barker was trained as a Navy fighter pilot in WW2, but wasn’t sent to a fleet squadron in time to fight. He once said: “I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. That was the end of World War II.”