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TIL that 6-term Congressman & 2-term Lieutenant Governor Joel Pritchard was also the inventor of pickleball

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8e8LP TIL that Pocky, the Japanese chocolate biscuit shaped like a thin stick, is named after the onomatopoeic sound made when snapping a Pocky stick in half
vxk4 TIL It took Quebec until 2006 to pay off its debt from hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics
ZnKo TIL Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart” has been described as “the first novel in English which spoke from the interior of the African character, rather than portraying the African as an exotic, as the white man would see him”
9YP96 TIL Candace Bergen’s ventriloquist father left $10,000 to his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, and $0 to her. Charlie also had his own bedroom, which was bigger than hers. She also recalls "A gentle squeeze on the back of my neck was my cue to open and shut my mouth so he could ventriloquize me.”
4GGa TIL A “Sherpa” isnt a porter on mountain-climbing expedition but an ethnic group living mostly in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. Sherpas all have the surname “Sherpa”. The name was mistakenly given to them by Nepalese census takers who didn’t realize that last names are not a part of Sherpa culture.