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TIL that in 1969, when black Americans were still prevented from swimming in pools with white people, Fred Rogers invited a black character played by François Clemmons to join him cooling his feet in a pool on an episode of his show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which broke a well-known color barrier
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TIL Kurt Russell portrayed Elvis in the 1979 made-for-TV movie “Elvis“, his real dad acted as Elvis‘ dad, and his first wife played Priscilla Presley. In 1994 Forrest Gump, Kurt Russell did the voiceover on the Elvis clip, and in 1963 he played as a child extra in a movie with the real Elvis.
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TIL Judith Love Cohen worked on the guidance computer for the Minuteman missile and the Abort-Guidance System in the Apollo Lunar Module – the guidance system that played an important role in the safe return of Apollo 13. She was also giving birth to Jack Black when she finished working on it.
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TIL that Oliver Reed (actor who played Proximo in the Movie Gladiator) died during filming of a heart attack. He became ill after allegedly drinking 3 bottles of Captain Morgan, 8 German beers, cognac, and numerous shots of whiskey at a pub in Malta. The pub was renamed “Ollie’s last pub.”
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TIL that the song “Tubular Bells” – most famous for being the theme to “The Exorcist”, was written and recorded by a 19 year-old Mike Oldfield in 1973 who played almost entirely all the instruments on the song. The full song is over twenty minutes long, and is featured on an album of the same name.
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