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TIL of Kaiser, a Brazilian conman who had a 20-year football career without ever playing a single game. He hid his limited ability with fake injuries, connection to influential figures, and other ruses. One time he even started a fight with a fan to be sent off before a game to avoid playing

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wLDPE TIL Larry Brantley, the voice of Wishbone, got the gig after improvising about the dog's inner thoughts about a tennis ball for five minutes: "I walked out of the audition saying, 'I can't believe I just did five minutes about a tennis ball.' And then I got the job."
OoNLX TIL It takes approximately seven minutes for a raindrop to fall from the cloud to the ground.
GYo77 TIL that Nichelle Nichols the original Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek was a recruiter for NASA from the late 1970's until the late 1980's and many of her new recruits were women or members of racial and ethnic minorities
gJPL TIL that a successful attempt at breaking the altitude record for a helicopter resulted in an engine failure which led to a world record for the longest autorotation of a helicopter.
4km8X TIL that Victor Hugo Sosa, a Mexican politician, married an alligator. He serves as the mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town where marrying these reptiles has been a tradition for over 200 years.