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TIL Mel Blanc’s tombstone reads; “That’s all folks!”

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7QrL TIL there’s a huge cave dug by elephants: Kitum Cave
69ELX TIL After being left out of a 1954 reboot of their character, Captain America, comic artist Jack Kirby and writer Joe Simon created a near identical superhero, "Fighting American," to battle communists.
xVL95 TIL that your life really does flash before your eyes when you die. A study interviewing participants with "near death" experiences found that they re-witnessed very emotional experiences again, and lost all sense of time. One subject said "It was like being there for centuries."
PYP4V TIL that Theodore Roosevelt --a successful boxer at Harvard, got into a bar fight after a man called him 'four eyes' in reference to his spectacles and suggested he pay for drinks. The man held two guns and told Roosevelt to "set up the drinks." Roosevelt knocked him out and took away his guns.
GAVaN TIL that Brockton Massachusetts is called The City Of Champions, because both undefeated heavyweight Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler are Brockton natives.