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TIL that all of Mr Roger's sweaters that he wore on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood were knitted by his mother, Nancy McFeely Rogers

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oKAY TIL: US soldiers raped, burned and killed a 14yo Iraqi girl and killed 3 members of her family including 6yo sister
OoLWe Today I learned that in the 1880s, a young man named Larry Donovan attempted to make a living solely by jumping off high bridges. When he died at the age of 26, his mother was quoted in the newspaper saying: "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living."
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