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TIL a Group of Baboons is Called a Congress

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ZpGLD TIL that Robert Englund made a cameo appearance as Freddy Krueger on the Japanese comedy show "Kato-Chan Ken-Chan Gokigen".
4Xorw TIL The 'Ides of March' is on 15 March. The Romans did not count days of the month from first to last. They counted backwards from three fixed points (Nones, Ides and Kalends).
xVj47 TIL that Chuck Yeager, the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight (in 1947), is still alive today and is 95 years old
7rdbX TIL of the time footballer (later manager) Mark Hughes played in two matches, in two separate countries, on the same day. In November 1987, he played for Wales against Czechoslovakia in Prague. After the game he was quickly flown to Germany where he came on as a substitute for Bayern Munich.
b9ZBZ TIL the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch from SNL was created purely as an excuse so Norm Macdonald could do his Burt Reynolds impersonation