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TIL in the UK and Australia "Where's Waldo?" is known as "Where's Wally?" and that's actually the character's original name!

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RrWQ TIL That the CIA was in contact with generals planning to assassinate the South Vietnam president on Nov. 2, 1963. Kennedy “rushed from the room with a look of shock and dismay on his face.” He had not approved Diệm’s murder. Kennedy was assassinated 20 days later.
8eEQV TIL “Kiss and Cry” is the name for the area where figure skaters await the announcement of their performance score
wLQxo TIL the average person eats more than 7,000 calories on Christmas Day, according to a study done by Associated British Foods
RN8 TIL the Molotov Cocktail is not Russian, despite the obvious Russian name. The petrol bomb was mass produced by the Finnish in the Winter War, and the term itself was coined to mock Soviet propaganda.
KdN6 TIL that Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus in approximately the same amount of time the average student learns it in University.