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TIL: Morgan Freeman played a singing vampire obsessed with vegetables on The Electric Company in the 70’s.

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aw6oo TIL the 90s sketch comedy show “In Living Color” drew away 22% of Super Bowl XXVI’s viewers during its halftime show by doing a special live episode of their own, which is why subsequent Super Bowls got A-List performers and dropped the previous themed marching band format.
bvw4 TIL Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini all have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, while Gandhi never won it
AnLd TIL that in 1934, Georgia Tech’s football team refused to play against Michigan if a black player named Willis Ward took the field. One of Ward’s friends and fellow players was then-future president Gerald Ford, who threatened to quit if Ward was benched.
kOa54 TIL that in 1917 a French cargo ship full of high explosives exploded in Halifax Harbour. The explosion was so powerful that an 1100 lbs anchor shaft launched in the explosion flew over the entire town and landed in a field 4 kilometres away.
NXMv8 TIL:Crows are a highly intelligent species, which are self-aware just like humans. They are as smart as Gorillas and have a complex brain which has the ability to reason