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TIL that Cindi Lauper sang the intro song to Pee Wee’s Playhouse.

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86g4 TIL in 1975, Leonard Nimoy published his autobiography I Am Not Spock. In 1995, he published a second volume: I AM Spock.
QNDZX TIL about Captain Richard J. Flaherty AKA “The Giant Killer”, one of the smallest men to ever serve in the military at 4’ 9” / 97lbs. He earned the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart (1OLC), Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Combat Infantryman’s Badge and Parachutist Badge in the Vietnam War.
neDNG TIL over a fifth of all Kinects sold were sold in the first 60 days; 8 out of all 35 million shipped were bought in that period, making the Kinect the fastest-ever selling consumer electronics device at that time.
reNW TIL Sean Smith, one of the Americans killed in the Benghazi attack, was a leading player known as ‘Vile Rat’ in EVE Online. On the day of his death, Smith typed a message online; “Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our 'police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”
rNKBy TIL the "Toyota War" was an international military conflict during which the Chadian army warded off Gaddafi's tank-equipped Libyan invasion with one of the first large scale uses of civilian technicals (Toyota Land Cruisers with heavy weaponry mounted to them).