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TIL that David Yost, the original Blue Power Ranger, left the show due to the harassment he received from creators, producers, writers over his being gay, causing him to have a nervous breakdown upon leaving. “The reason that I walked off is that I was called ‘f—–‘ one too many times,” Yost says.

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9Apm TIL the first (Russian) spacewalk encountered problems leading to reentry deep in Siberia, where the astronauts had to camp in the reentry module overnight to keep bears and wolves at bay.
Brlbd TIL of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which was an anti-ballistic missile program, launched by Ronald Reagan in the 80's, that was intended to use lasers and satellites to shoot down nuclear missiles in space. Because of this, the program was commonly referred to as "Star Wars".
eVoD TIL Dave Chappelle based his character Clayton Bigsby (the black white supremacist) on his own blind grandfather.
OoWg TIL that Ayn Rand enrolled in Medicare and Social Security
5RNP TIL most streets in Japan don’t have names. In Japan, they use a very different addressing system than is used in most Western countries. Rather than streets having names (the space in between blocks), they give blocks numbers and leave the space in between the blocks, streets, nameless.