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TIL Jay Jackson (Perd Hapley from Parks and Rec) was an award winning newscaster in real life before getting into acting where he would mainly play… a newscaster/reporter.

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WW89 TIL serial killer Edmund Kemper said to one of his victims he was sorry for accidentally touching her breast, a few minutes before killing her
GY8jE TIL that on August 2, 1922, when Alexander Graham Bell died, every phone in North America was turned off to pay respects to him.
VMPom TIL that Keith Flint (of The Prodigy) became a popular pub owner in Essex following his music career. Flint eventually brought in a jar to collect one-pound fines from customers who referenced the song "Firestarter" as he tended to the pub's fireplace.
n0ob TIL Muhammad Ali has a star on Hollywood Boulevard, but his star is the only one to be mounted on a vertical surface, out of deference to his request that his prophets name not be walked upon.
epWJL TIL: A South Carolina judge revoked the license of a funeral home where a worker cut the legs off a 6-foot-7 body so it would fit in a casket.