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TIL that the crew of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood rarely talked to Fred off set and "mercilessly made fun of him behind his back". Some of the crew would also go into the studio before shows when Fred was rehearsing with the puppets, in order to ask his puppets for advice, which Fred gave them.

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p8WVb TIL that the idea that homeowners own the airspace above their homes comes from medieval Roman law “Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos” ("Whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell.")
69Em7 TIL Filial Responsibility Laws exist in over half of US States which financially obligate adult children to pay for for their indigent parents food, clothing and care, regardless of estrangement. If children refuse, the state will bring legal action to recover the cost of providing care.
BJnr TIL: The music used in the ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ anti-piracy advert is pirated
nWl5W TIL trash bags were only invented in 1950, so there are plenty of people alive who predate them, and who may have grown up without them.
5J0p TIL António Moniz, the surgeon who developed the frontal lobotomy procedure to make people calm and docile, was shot by one of his lobotomized patients.