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TIL that Pat Morita, Mr. Miyagi, started out as a stand up comic and considered Redd Foxx his mentor

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XK1k TIL that several European countries dealt with their rabies problem by air-dropping vaccinated chicken heads for wild foxes to eat.
rNO9o TIL: To "protect the truth," a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. Her archives grew to about 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in her home and apartments she rented to store them. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed to digitize the volumes.
1Qlr TIL in 10th century lived Syrian poet who was attacking and rejecting Islamic (or any other religion) claims and could freely express his opinions in Arabic lands without fear of his life. In 2013, almost a thousand years after his death, a Jihadist group beheaded his statue
XENgE TIL that drinking Coca-Cola is prescribed as an effective treatment for certain types of bowel obstructions
jBnE TIL that in the song “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay,” Otis Redding simply whistled the last verse in the recording because he hadn’t thought of any lyrics yet. Three days after recording, he died in a plane crash, and both the song and the whistling became iconic.