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TIL that Mr. Rogers went in front of the Senate to plead with them not to cut funding for PBS. Not only did he prevent the cut of funding, but he scored PBS an additional $20 million grant. He only talked for six minutes.

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7rAlZ TIL that Geddy Lee’s (lead singer and bassist for Rush) parents met in a Nazi work camp, were both sent to Auschwitz. His fater was then sent to Dachau and his mother went to Bergen-Belsen. Both were liberated and eventually reunited.
XEJNX TIL that the comedian Milton Berle was so popular in 1951 that the U.S. television network NBC signed him to a $6 million, 30-year contract. Berle's comedy-variety show was canceled in 1956 due to low ratings. NBC, however, continued to pay him until 1981.
yQ4Bw TIL that only 2% of the world’s population has green eyes.
D10xP TIL: Duke Ellington's signature tune, "Take the 'A' Train" was recovered from a trash can just in time before being gone forever. Composer Billy Strayhorn had discarded it as second rate.
W7grB TIL of Virgin boy eggs, which are eggs boiled in the urine of boys under 10 (and someone's job is to canvas school urinals)