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TIL that the crew of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood rarely talked to Fred off set and made fun of him behind his back. Despite this, when the same men would sneak into the studio before shows when Fred was rehearsing with the puppets, in order to ask his puppets for advice, he still gave them advice.

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8NdL TIL that the vital antibody-based Ebola drug ZMapp is produced in large scale in the Nicotiana benthamiana plant- tobacco.
JYQZ8 TIL that boxer Jimmy Doyle, who died fighting Sugar Ray Robinson for the Welterweight title in 1947, challenged Robinson to the fight in order to buy his mother a house. After Doyle's death, Robinson gave the earnings from his next four fights to Doyle's mother so she could buy that house.
7mEb TIL 19 year old Zachary Anderson was charged as a sex offender and placed on the sex offender registry after hooking up with a younger girl who lied and said she was 17. He received jail time and will remain on the registry for 25 years.
Ge45 TIL that pinball was illegal for 30 years in many major US cities. Politicians thought that pinball was a game based on chance and therefore must have been a mob-run scam. The ban ended when a master pinball player was called in front of a committee to demonstrate his skill.
Lkm8Q TIL according to a 2001 study, sponsored by the BBC, France 3 and Discovery Channel, Jesus's skin would have been more olive-colored than white or black, and that he would have most likely looked like a typical Galilean Semite of his day.