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TIL that Mr. Rogers greatly enjoyed the 1994 film Forrest Gump, which his son said Rogers viewed "probably a hundred times."

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mx9Xy TIL your brain/eyes will generate a "light show" (known as the Prisoner's Cinema) if kept in darkness for long periods of time. The phenomenon is reported by prisoners confined to dark cells and by others kept in darkness as well as; truck drivers, pilots and practitioners of intense meditation.
gxv7 TIL there is a 50,000 word novel that was written without using a single word containing the letter “e”
Mej1m TIL that the Fernandina giant tortoise, believed to be extinct for over 100 years, was spotted in the Galapagos last year.
9WeD TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to numerous reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the Midwest in an ice cream truck.”
nono TIL that Halifax sends Boston a Christmas tree every year for their help with one of the largest non-nuclear explosions the world has witnessed.