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TIL Jason Alexander (George Costanza) is a practicing magician, and only switched to acting as a career when he realized that he was unlikely to succeed as a magician.

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KYWxa TIL that the inventor of lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine. Egas Moniz was also a duelist, medical school dean, member of parliament, ambassador and foreign minister. Once he was shot by a patient but survived. Moniz also authored many books, even one on the history of playing cards.
6EjAZ TIL that the Australian women's national soccer team lost 7-0 to team of 15-year-old boys
awY7M TIL that panic buying during a pandemic is not new; during the Black Plague a physician in Vienna stated, ‘When the plague broke out, people gorged themselves with such amounts of angelica root that later nobody was able to purchase any, not even for considerable sums of money’.
5dkD TIL A partially paralyzed 75-year-old, was in his outhouse pit when the floor of it suddenly gave way. He fell through and was surrounded with excrement, urine, snakes, spiders, maggots and rats. He became stuck and it was over 3 days before the mailman found him.
6Bem TIL American fear over hitchhiking is not only largely irrational, but due to a campaign of disinformation by the FBI in the 1950s and 60s