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NXmYE TIL that Hall of Fame NHL player Red Kelly played part of his career while also serving as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons in Canada. In the 1963 election for his riding he beat another person associated with the NHL: Player agent and future convicted fraudster Alan Eagleson.
d8nVZ TIL the part of Central Park where Yoko Ono scattered John Lennon's ashes is now named Strawberry Fields.
mxyZM TIL that peeing on the near side of the toilet bowl, in front of the water, produces the least splashback
ADpNd TIL that an Austrian Diplomat writing an antisemitic book about the evilness of Jews came to a different conclusion before it was published, declaring that "antisemitism amounted to nothing more credible than fanatical religious hatred"
bN60 TIL Frank Welker is the original voice for the animated cartoon character Fred from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969) and 47 years later continues to voice him (and now Scooby) for the new cartoon adaptations.