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TIL that Jim Henson's puppeteers almost never broke character, no matter what happened

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9MPG TIL Shirley Temple was an ambassador to Czechoslovakia & Ghana, survived breast cancer, served on the board of directors of Bank of America and was a candidate for the House of Representatives. REST IN PEACE
WMEN TIL the precursor to Monopoly was designed to illustrate how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants, and that when children play the game, it would “provoke their natural suspicion of unfairness.”
ExZ7 TIL that in Paris in 1926 the Ukrainian Head of State was assassinated with 5 shots from a revolver in broad daylight. The policeman who witnessed the crime walked over to the gunman, saying quietly “Is that enough?”.
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