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TIL Jerry Houser played Dave Killer Carson in Slapshot but is more recognizable as Marcia Brady's husband Wally Logan on FOUR separate Brady Bunch reunion shows/series. Even the original Marcia didn't make it for the last one!

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KYXQG TIL modern day heart and lung transplants were heralded by a scientist who once surgically added a second head to a dogs body. The dog lived for almost a month.
rN4KM TIL there have been at least 600 polar bears that have made the swim/ice drift to Iceland since the settlement of the island.
D1xAg TIL that Frank Sinatra did not serve in the military during WWII, classified as F4 (Registrant not acceptable for military service) because the US Army considered him "not acceptable material from a psychiatric viewpoint".
GAolE TIL that the oldest known writing in the world, Sumerian Cuneiform, is over 5000 years old and only 5-10% of all recovered tablets have been translated.
5YaRp TIL the term "parking" (a car) comes from when Washington, DC built roadside parks on city streets. Owners would tie their horses to the trees to rest in the shade, and the practice stuck as cars took over