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TIL Whoopi Goldberg's stage name came from a Whoopee Cushion due to her gassy nature

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kO6DE TIL that in Edgar Allen Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gorden Pym of Nantucket the survivors of a shipwreck eat a character called Richard Parker. Poe called the book "silly," but in 1884 the survivors of a real British shipwreck were tried for eating a cabin boy ... named Richard Parker.
jNprE TIL of a Fake Shemp, a disguised actor that is meant to replace another actor in a film. It's named after Joe Palma standing in for Shemp Howard in the last four Three Stooges shorts after Howard's death.
epNPJ TIL: Both the DNA and anthropological examinations of Hitler's skull suggested that the skull actually belonged to an adult female who would have been considerably younger.
4kMOR TIL two families escaped East Germany in a home made hot air balloon
KYAK9 TIL in 1940s and 50s America coin-op machines called the “Voice-O-Graph” were commonly available to instantly record a single vinyl record from an attached microphone for a few quarters