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TIL Stephen Colbert once took over a public access cable show in Michigan to interview Eminem on the air

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e0B5b TIL Comedian Rodney Dangerfield was recognized by the Smithsonian Institution, which put one of his trademark white shirts and red ties on display. When he handed the shirt to the museum's curator, Rodney joked, "I have a feeling you're going to use this to clean Lindbergh's plane."
wEY6 TIL at age 16 Sybil Ludington rode twice the distance as Paul Revere to announce the British were coming.
AD5da TIL In a year-long study people who received the Leap chair and office ergonomics training achieved up to a 17.8% increase in productivity
Y7VbP TIL about the Pit of Despair, an apparatus used in widely-condemned experiments that isolated young monkeys in a dark, smooth tank with sloped sides and a curved base. The monkeys were left isolated and hopeless in the dark for months, supposedly to induce and study depression.
OogK7 TIL that aerial dogfights were fought with pistols before they figured out how to properly install machine guns into planes.