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TIL Laverne's & Shirley's "schlemiel and schlimazel" are real words with real meanings

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WkB6A TIL that Félicette, the only cat to survive a spaceflight, was honored in 2019 with a memorial at France's International Space University.
QNXB6 TIL the Turkish national sport is oil wrestling where men cover themselves in olive oil and then wrestle. It is also allowed to slip your hand into other wrestler shorts.
ZvNG TIL rectal stimulation is a proven method to get rid of hiccups.
YDvG TIL that two conductors have died while conducting the second act of Wagner’s opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’. They collapsed from heart attacks at exactly the same point in the music due its technical demands.
x6goo TIL that Father's Day was first celebrated in Washington state in 1910 but wasn't declared a nationwide holiday in the US until 1972, 58 years after Mother's Day became official.