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TIL Mister Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish because a young blind viewer once asked him to do so. She wanted to know the fish were OK.

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RXx9 TIL a New York man named Newman was arrested for fraud after pretending to be an architect in a bust referred to by the state as “Operation Vandelay Industries”
jDOM TIL a woman struck and killed a child on his bicycle with her SUV. She then sued the dead child for emotional distress caused by his “incompetent bicycling.”
7rP0Z TIL Anita Hill was not the only accuser who was in DC to testify that Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her. The committee had Angela Wright sit in her lawyer's office in DC for 3 days and never called on her.
R7n59 TIL that Keanu Reeves trained for four months in karate for The Matrix. Later, he learned over 200 martial arts moves for Matrix Reloaded. He also learned Judo and Jujitso for John Wick.
grAQb TIL that the song Old Shep (written by Red Foley and made famous by Elvis), is based on dog Foley owned as a child, that, in reality, was poisoned by a neighbor.