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TIL that Patrick Stewart has directed 4 episodes of “Star Trek - The Next Generation”

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GYy14 TIL the common fitness target of 10,000 steps/day came from a Japanese pedometer company who gave their product a name that means "the 10,000-step meter” because the Japanese character for “10,000” resembles a person walking: 万. There is no known science behind a goal of 10,000 steps
E1lyX TIL Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son, was in close proximity to three out of four presidential assassinations.
j6yYR TIL The last incarnation of the Fiat 500 (1972—1975) was the R model ... the fuel gauge was omitted and only the low fuel indicator remained.
epj4L TIL Harriet Tubman was the first woman in American history to lead a major military operation. She also served as a Union spy and scout in the Confederacy during the Civil War.
P1mrg TIL that in the city of Lincoln, IL, a phone booth was installed in the 1960s on the rooftop of City Hall, a 3 story building. Why? Weather watching and reporting. It is still there.