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TIL in the original airing of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” Rudolph visited the island of Misfit Toys and promised to help them, but never actually did. Tons of children wrote to Rankin-Bass, concerned for the toys, and got the company to make another scene showing the toys had been saved.

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GAmMg TIL that Aruna Shanbaug, an Indian nurse spent 42 years in a vegetative state after a brutal assault in 1973. Shanbaug died of pneumonia on 18 May 2015, after being in a persistent vegetative state for nearly 42 years.
AD1bw TIL of the mysterious Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool, England, a series of extensive subterranean excavations, of unknown purpose.
GYR91 TIL that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame paid $6,000 for the preservation of Lady Gaga's meat dress which included treatment with bleach, formaldehyde and detergent to kill any bacteria which had formed during the time before it was frozen.
NXmRQ TIL about Earl Shaffer who, after WW2 ended, became the first person to hike the entire Appalachian trail in order to “walk the war out of my system.”
AQxg TIL that despite Kermit the Frog being Jim Henson’s most iconic creation, it was actually Rowlf the Dog that was not only the first muppet, but was also more like Henson in real life according to people who knew him.