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TIL 91% of $17.5 billion Bernie Madoff defrauded has been returned to 25k+ investors

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695YX TIL that 8 members of the Little Rock Nine - a group of Black students who were prevented by angry mobs from enrolling in a white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas - are still alive.
N76lQ TIL that Robert Downey Jr. gave Chris Evans a custom-designed "Steve Rogers" car with the Cap shield emblazoned on the steering wheel
a84pL TIL Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide was first released in 1969 when Leonard Maltin was still a teenager.
XEWkX TIL that Festivus, a fictional holiday from a 1997 Seinfeld ep featuring the "Airing of Grievances," where celebrants tell loved ones ways they've "wronged" them over the previous year, is still celebrated annually by a Fla. newspaper that prints grievances from around the U.S. on Festivus, Dec. 23.
OMoe TIL the guy who voiced Mr. Owl on the Tootsie Pop commercials, also invented the artificial heart.