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TIL Waldo from Where's Waldo? is just the American version. His real name is Wally

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nWjdB TIL that during the Gulf War the coalition forces suffered nearly as many non-combat losses (145) as losses directly related to combat (148 KIA). This number is mainly due to a single C-130H that crashed while transporting 95 Senegalese soldiers.
EBop TIL Charles Boycott, an English land agent, was so hated by the community he became a verb.
J1wov TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, is the Guinness World Records holder of most published author with 1,084 works.
Z8Y14 TIL 2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers
dVlK TIL when Yuri Gagarin landed after his famous spaceflight, the only people nearby were a farmer and her daughter. He looked like frightening in his orange space suit, so he said “Don’t be afraid, I’m a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!”