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TIL Harland Williams, the pee drinking trooper from Dumb and Dumber, created Puppy Dog Pals, a Disney cartoon

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4XgON TIL that Vin Diesel named his daughter Pauline in honor of his late friend, Paul Walker.
nep7b TIL: Before the invention of toothbrushes, Europeans cleaned their teeth with rags rolled in salt or soot while Indians and Africans chewed on sticks from the Salvadora tree.
x6jRg TIL that in 2011, George Michael came out of a coma speaking in a country western accent -- an instance of a rare but real neurological condition called foreign accent syndrome.
p8NvA TIL about HERA, a telescope searching for the oldest stars in the universe, from a period known as the Cosmic Dark Ages. And it is built from stuff you could buy at any local hardware store. "This is the beauty of low frequency radio astronomy: one doesn’t need custom, expensive hardware."
b6YJ7 TIL that the US supreme court building has a statue of Prophet Muhammad, In 1997 Chief Justice William Rehnquist rejected the Muslim council's request to remove the statue saying it was intended only to recognize him as an important figure in the history of law and not as a form of idol worship