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TIL that Serena Williams, often considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all-time, voiced Ming the Prison Guard on "Avatar: The Last Airbender", after she said it was her "favorite show"

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WkL0d TIL the growing German city of Wuppertal needed a railway, but had nowhere to put it. A regular monorail was deemed unsuitable, and an experimental "Floating Monorail" system was selected and constructed through the city and above the river, and remains in popular use today after over 115 years.
Ab44 TIL That Charles M. Schulz, the genius behind the comic strip Peanuts, wrote the comic every day until the day he died. The final strip was published the next day, meaning that as he predicted, the comic outlived him.
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