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TIL The Pbs character Wishbone has over 50 fictional books about him

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kJvg5 TIL of Jay Lovestone, who was a one time Communist Party USA leader, then after being kicked out, worked for the CIA in anti communist activities
ReL6 TIL that Andrew Jackson’s political opponents referred to him as jackass. He adopted the name and used it as his campaign symbol. It would eventually become the symbol of the entire Democratic Party
DGvr TIL after musician Jonathan Coulton had his cover of “Baby Got Back” stolen for the TV series Glee, he rereleased his cover with the description “cover of Glee’s cover of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s song, which is to say it’s EXACTLY THE SAME as my original version”.
4XplN TIL Despite being apex predators, orcas do not see humans as prey and they are even docile to them in some circumstances. There are no modern reports of fatalities caused by wild orcas.
D1EEJ TIL tempura was introduced to the Japanese by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century observing abstinence rules for Catholics surrounding the quarterly ember days (Quattuor Tempora). Earlier Japanese deep-fried food was either simply fried without breading or batter, or fried with rice flour.