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TIL that in 1981, Mr. Rogers convinced a NPR Correspondent to host Roger's special show about divorce & children by calling them in the voice of Daniel Tiger to allay the correspondent's fears about hosting the show.

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ne4Eo TIL There are classes in Japan that teach kids how to use the Soroban abacus to develop faster skills in arithmetic. After a few years they no longer even need to use a real abacus to perform fast mental calculations since they can already visualize an image of it
W7ZWd TIL of The People's Olympiad, which was a planned alternate Olympics backed by the USSR and communist and socialist organizations, which were to be held to protest the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. It ultimately never happened because the Spanish Civil War started on the same day as the Opening Ceremony.
KOWK6 TIL William Shatner starred in a Horror movie in 1965 in which he spoke entirely in Esperanto
4XR6b TIL that in Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio felt uncomfortable saying the 'N' word repeatedly, so Samuel L. Jackson pulled him aside and said, "Hey motherfucker, this is another Tuesday for us. Let's go!"
XWdQ TIL babies have accents. example, a French babies cry will end with a rising note, while German babies have a dropping note at the end of theirs. they pick up on this in the womb.