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TIL the real name of the actor that portrayed Wishbone was Soccer.

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E1AoV TIL of Charlie Walker, the first non-government individual to fly into space. After NASA deemed him unqualified and rejected his 1978 application for astronaut, he co-developed a space bound device which required him to accompany it. Walker flew into space three times with the device he co-patented.
RAg7 TIL when Luxembourg was liberated from nazism in 1944, the returning government was so impressed with some regulations and laws concerning tax and employment the nazis had made, that it decided to simply keep them.
4XD4g TIL Ty Cobb had his tonsils removed without anesthesia and then played a baseball game later that day
Wkkp9 TIL that when the Sears magazine printers switched from a thin, newspaper-like stock to a more modern glossy paper stock, people wrote in to the company to complain that the magazine couldn't be used for toilet paper anymore.
6EQlQ TIL of The Barnum Effect: a common psychological phenomenon where people give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that seem tailored to them but are, in fact, vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. See astrology, fortune telling etc.