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TIL After the airing of Louie Season 2 Episode 9, Robin Williams wrote to Louie, "The Doug Stanhope episode of Louie was the most powerful dialogue I have ever seen on the subject of suicide."

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e0abk TIL the dwarf actors in the 1987 film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie could only survive in their costumes for five to seven minutes before their oxygen depleted, so a paramedic with a stop watch was required on set in order to keep the takes quick, and the actors from asphyxiating.
7gGp TIL Mister Rogers composed nearly all the music on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and he held a degree in music composition.
8rkb TIL the targeted phishing of corporate executives is known as “Whaling”
x0NB TIL that U.S. Marine Smedley Butler, one of the most decorated servicemen in American history, was a staunch critic of U.S. military endeavors, including his his own participation, saying “In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
GY59N TIL comedian Greg Davies' parents lived in England around the time he was born, but when his mother went into labor, his Welsh father drove them all across the border, just so his son would be Welsh-born, and thus eligible to play rugby for the Welsh national team