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TIL In the late 1980’s, Paramount was considering making a Doctor Who movie with Michael Jackson as The Doctor. Their second choice? Bill Cosby.

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xVBv5 TIL that Charging Bull, the famous statue on Wall Street, was installed secretly and illegally outside the New York Stock Exchange in 1989 following the 1987 stock market crash. The sculpture was seized and impounded by NYPD, but re-installed two blocks south of the Exchange after a public outcry.
R7maw TIL That Adidas is an abbreviation of it's owner's name, Adolf (adi) Dassler (das)
pYYkZ TIL that lobster used to be the poor people’s protein up until the 1880s, to the point that prisoners complain if they have to eat it more then 3 times a week
gMOrD TIL of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1845.
yokl TIL gloves were introduced into boxing not for safety reasons but to increase hits to the head and dramatic knockouts.