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TIL every sweater that Mr. Rogers wore in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was hand-knit by his mother.

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16B9D TIL that Freddie Highmore, better known as the doctor from the "I AM A SURGEON" meme, went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, earning a double first in Spanish and Arabic, and almost became a lawyer. He maintained an impressive academic record throughout his child-teen acting career.
78MPr TIL about Hachiko. The dog who went to the train station everyday for 9 Years, 9 months, and 15 days to wait for his owner's return.
KYR96 TIL: Male echidnas have a four-headed penis — during mating, the heads on one side "shut down" and do not grow in size, while the other two are used to release semen. Each time it copulates, it alternates heads in sets of two. Prior to 2007, no one had ever seen an echidna ejaculate.
JYYW1 TIL of Nauru. In 1980, the island nation was considered the wealthiest nation on the planet; in 2017, BusinessTech listed it as one of the five poorest countries in the world.
BQQk TIL M-185 on Mackinac island, Michigan is the only state highway in US where no motorized vehicles are allowed. Travel is only by bicycles, horses or on foot.