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TIL that Daveigh Chase, who was the voice of Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, also played Samara, the creepy girl in The Ring

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GA11g TIL when the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup in 1967, they had the name of the man who wore their mascot costume engraved on the cup.
bYQE TIL the first human cardiac catheterization was done by Werner Forssmann who, after failing to get permission from his department chief, anesthetized his arm, inserted a catheter into his vein and threaded it into his heart. He then walked down to the X-ray department and took a picture to prove it
gMKRW TIL Michael Jordan had a clause in his contract called “For the Love of the Game” that allowed him to play basketball anytime, anywhere, for any reason.
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y6Yp TIL that the world’s oldest known complaint letter was written to a Sumerian copper merchant named Ea-Nasir almost 4000 years ago on a clay tablet: “You put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said: ‘If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!’”