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TIL that one of horror film director George Romero’s earliest films and his first paid gig in the industry was a segment of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood where Fred Rogers received a tonsillectomy

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Zp5YD Today I learned that Fatty and Spotty (two of the Bash Street Kids from The Beano) were respectively renamed Freddy and Scotty in 2021.
6ENkm TIL Irish monks invented spacing between written words.
KYE54 Today I learned about the 4 astronomer nuns who helped map nearly 500,000 stars in the late 1800s and early part of the 20th century. Emilia Ponzoni, Regina Colombo, Concetta Finardi and Luigia Panceri.
bxM9 TIL at a Marine Mammal Institute, dolphins were trained to turn in garbage that fell into the tanks in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide pieces of paper under a rock, tearing off smaller pieces from the paper in order to get more fish out of it.
1v4V TIL that female ferrets, once in heat, will die if they don’t get laid. High oestrogen and no mating results in damaged bone marrow, lack of blood cells and eventual death.