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TIL when Looney Tunes director Chuck Jones was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1996, Jones said: "Well, what can I say in the face of such humiliating evidence? I stand guilty before the world of directing over 300 cartoons in the last 50 or 60 years. Hopefully, this means you've forgiven me."

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J1RAQ TIL that the North Star (Polaris) is younger than trees
XEpLj TIL of Jérôme of Sandy Cove, a mysterious deaf-mute man who was found on a beach in 1863 with both legs amputated above the knee. He never spoke a word for the rest of his life and died in 1912. His origins are still unknown.
wJo6 TIL that the current Director of the FBI keeps a copy of the FBI request to wiretap Martin Luther King, Jr., “as a reminder of the bureau’s capacity to do wrong.”
KYZ9w TIL about the event known as the Dancing Plague of 1518, where hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced uncontrollably for days without rest, leading to numerous deaths from heart attack, stroke, and exhaustion
9YKd7 TIL King County, WA, changed the "King" it was named after from William Rufus DeVane King, a slaveowner, to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1986.