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TIL Jeff Cohen who played Chunk, the chubby kid in the Goonies went on to study law and entertainment law later co-founding the Cohen & Gardner firm in Beverly Hills. Earlier he asked Goonies director R.Donner for a recommendation for his college application Donner and his wife offered to pay for it

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W7p14 TIL that an iconic seventy-foot-tall monument in Sydney’s Hyde Park was initially a sewer ventilation system. The obelisk was unveiled in 1857 under Mayor George Thornton, and thus it became known as “George Thornton’s scent bottle”.
dZMB TIL that Buzz Aldrin claimed travel expenses for his journey with Apollo 11. They paid $ 33.31
X0M4Q TIL Surya Bonaly landed a back flip on one foot during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics
9wYB7 TIL - Jesuit Priest Athanasius Kircher has been compared to da Vinci as 'Master of a Hundred Arts'. Considered a founder of Egyptology, proposed the plague was spread by microorganism, andinventions attributed to him include a magnetic clock, various automatons and the first megaphone.
ObK4 TIL the 12 days of Christmas refers to the 12 days following Christmas, not the 12 days preceding Christmas