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TIL: Mr. Rogers created controversy by washing his feet in a pool with a black man (which wasn't allowed across most of the U.S. at the time)

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7r4xO TIL that the original proposal for the plot of the movie Anchorman was about news anchors trying to escape a mountaintop plane crash, while being stalked and killed by orangutans wielding ninja stars.
GA94E TIL Earl Browder, one of the early leader of the Communist Party USA, has a grandson, Bill Browder, who is a British Businessman and has a net worth of $100 Million.
5VdnP TIL about the Dancing Plague of 1518 in Strasbourg, France. Hundreds of people took to the streets dancing for days without rest, and over the period, some of those affected collapsed or even died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.
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