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TIL the actor who played Sloth in The Goonies was selected first overall in 1973 NFL draft and went on to win two Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders

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6EmDZ TIL that Ishi is known as the “last wild Indian” in America. He lived most of his life outside modern culture after his tribe, the Yahi (of the Yana group) became extinct in the late 1800s because of the California Gold Rush. He lived alone in the wilderness after his family died.
ADgJd TIL Marlon Brando’s final film was a movie called “Big Bug Man”. The animated film, co-starring Brendan Fraser, still has not been released and likely never will be.
909m TIL the French version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm changes the name of the pig Napoleon to Caesar. It is illegal to name a pig Napoleon in France.
69XQW TIL: Some solid chemicals can absorb so much air moisture that they dissolve in it. This is called deliquescence.
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