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TIL Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez took the stage name Martin Sheen in part as tribute to Fulton Sheen, a Catholic Bishop he admired.

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4XyXN TIL when Wheel of Fortune first aired in September 1973, the contestants would try to earn the money for the prizes that they themselves picked out.
dDjMK TIL that Mozambique is the only country in the world whose national flag features a modern gun (an AK-47)
rjye Til: Gaylord Perry, a Major League Baseball played with the giants for 7 years and never hit a home run. The giants manager joked with reporters saying, “They’ll put a man on the moon before Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, Gaylord Perry hit a home run
R5w7Q TIL The Hong Kong Stock Exchange closes for an hour for lunch
wv4E TIL that in 1978 the Canadian Museum of Nature fabricated a heist story to cover up the fact that they’d misplaced their Goodwill Moon Rock. The story was only given to one person: the 17 year old who’d delivered it 4 years earlier. He later found it in 2000 in a giant warehouse for museum exhibits.