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TIL that John Cleese has called Eddie Izzard ‘the lost Python’

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p8BBG TIL Some Native American Indian Nations believe in a mysterious man, a handsome brave who wears white buckskins, and brings gifts to Indian children. His name is 'Handsome Fellow'.
16DW8 Today I learned that humans can glow in the dark, however, they are too weak for the human eye to detect.
8aoxK TIL trigger warnings are unhelpful in reducing anxiety. Trigger warnings also do not reduce anxiety among people who met a clinical cutoff for PTSD symptoms, reported a diagnosis of PTSD, or reported that the stimuli matched the content of their past trauma.
e0644 TIL in the original airing of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” Rudolph visited the island of Misfit Toys and promised to help them, but never actually did. Tons of children wrote to Rankin-Bass, concerned for the toys, and got the company to make another scene showing the toys had been saved.
nedMb TIL There was a proposal to make Ottawa's Rideau Street enclosed in a continuous glass-and-steel structure. The heated mall was expected to allow pedestrians to shop in comfort year-round. However, the downside was that it attracted large numbers of vagrants and late-night drinkers