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

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5V1bD TIL that Paine Wingate was a founding father who attended the Continental Congress, served in both the Senate and the House, and died at age 98. (After being born in 1739, the same decade as Washington)
d84rK TIL of Mary Jane Rathbun, an elderly hospital volunteer who became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to San Francisco AIDS patients in the 1980's.
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