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TIL the cast of Captain Planet included the voice talents of Meg Ryan, Martin Sheen, Jeff Goldblum, LeVar Burton, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner, Tim Curry, John Ratzenberger, and James Coburn.

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PYp6n Today I learned about Lychrel numbers. A Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers. For example 57+75 = 132, 132+231 = 363, a palindrome. There is no known sequence for 196
vQQx TIL in 1997, Sir Patrick Stewart put on and starred in a “photo negative” production of Othello. He starred as a white Othello opposite a black cast. It was the first time this concept was used.
JY8Nm TIL Osama Bin Laden was a huge fan of The Wonder Years, Miami Vice and MacGuyver. He also had an obsession with Whitney Houston, wanted to marry her and talked about having her husband Bobby Brown murdered.
OopOg TIL Disney, Pixar, and Costco partnered together to sell a French wine to promote the film Ratatouille. They had to cancel the promotion due to the use of a cartoon character on the label.
VMoJm Today I learned "Sudoku" was actually originally invented by an American architect named "Howard Garns" in 1979, baring the name "Number Place"