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TIL Ivan is just the Slavic variant of the name “John”

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p8PeQ TIL the "We ain't found shit!" guy from Spaceballs was played by Tim Russ. Who played Tuvok on Star Trek, Voyager.
NAO1 TIL the first credit card, issued in 1949 and made out of cardboard, was Diners Club. Co-founder Frank McNamara was dining with clients and realized he forgot his wallet. His wife paid the tab, and McNamara thought of a multipurpose charge card as a way to avoid similar embarrassments in the future.
grmmb TIL that after South Korea beat Germany at the FIFA World Cup 2018, ensuring Mexico’s place in the knockout, hundreds of Mexican fans descended on the South Korean embassy in Mexico City to celebrate
9Y8DB TIL researchers at U of Tokyo have created a robot hand that has a 100% winning rate playing rock-paper-scissors. It does so by "cheating", using a high-speed camera to recognize the shape within 1 millisecond.
b6P1a TIL that until 1752, March 25th marked the start of the new year in England and her colonies