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TIL Tom Hanks never actually played the ping pong in Forrest Gump; the ball was added using CGI. Hanks and his competitor was just swatting air, timing their action to clicks.

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r0Po TIL In Jimmy Carter’s 1970 run for Gov. of GA, he criticized support of MLK, Jr. and praised segregationist Wallace to win conservative voters. Once he won the election, he declared that “the time of racial segregation was over.” His conservative supporters were shocked. He planned it all along.
6JO8 TIL Morgan Freeman is against Black History Month
MeYDA TIL the remains of an 18th century ship originating from Philadelphia was found during construction of the new World Trade Center in 2014
9Y7nm TIL about The Fortress of the Bears (aka Admiralty Island), an island off the coast of Alaska that has the highest concentration of brown bears in North America. The ~1600 bears outnumber people 3 to 1.
xV7G5 TIL A 27-year old man from India attempted to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. He claims it is wrong to bring a child into the world, because they have to put up with lifelong suffering.