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TIL That the US Department of Defense employs 1% of all Americans and is the world’s largest single employer

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KL6J TIL Actress Virginia Hey (Zhaan from Farscape) suffered 3 years of kidney bleeding from the blue makeup she wore for the show.
ndO7 TIL that there was a controversy with Tinky-Winky from the show ‘Teletubbies’, with critics stating he was a symbol for gay pride. Ken Viselman of Itsy-Bitsy Entertainment commented, that: “He’s not gay. He’s not straight. He’s just a character in a children’s series.”
JYx41 TIL that an uprising occurred in Romania in 1974, after they ran out of "Columbo" episodes, Peter Falk (who played the titular character) was reached out to by their government, so that the movement would quell, and he informed the people that more episodes would get made
QJd9k TIL the voice in your head while reading is subvocalization
YpxJG TIL of Christopher Thomas Knight, AKA the North Pond Hermit. He entered the woods of Maine at age 20 and lived without human contact for 27 years, committing roughly 40 robberies a year for supplies. The only time he spoke to another human was when he said "hi" to a passing hiker.