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TIL Pat Morita fought tuberculosis at a young age which resulted in him being in a body cast on and off from ages 2-11 and being told he would never walk, some of you might better know him as Mr.Miyagi from the Karate Kid films or Arnold from Happy Days

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xVBKD TIL During the Cold War, US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles asked Indian Prime Minister Nehru “Are you with us or against us?”, Nehru replied “Yes”.
e08L4 TIL in 1955, a local Sears store in Colorado Springs, CO, had an ad stating children can call Santa on Christmas Eve. The phone number listed was misprinted, and calls were directed to NORAD; thus starting a yearly tradition
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