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TIL That Donnie from The Wild Thornberries was voiced by Flea, the bassist from Red Hot Chili Peppers

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J19Y1 Today I learned that Oxford University is so old that they don't even know when exactly it was founded and that the earliest evidence of teaching there goes back to 1096.
8wZG TIL there is an ancient city in central Mexico that no one knows the origin of, even today. The Aztecs called it “the city of the gods” because they claimed it was built overnight by the gods because it wasn’t there one day and was the next
0wVWA TIL of LW Wright, a man who conned and lied his way into an official NASCAR Race in the spring of 1982. He immediately vanished after the race and hasn't been seen since because there are warrants for his arrest.
Gap5 TIL that Mae Questel, the voice of Olive Oyl in the original Popeye cartoon, voiced Popeye himself in a few shorts where his voice actor, Jack Mercer, was unavailable
m97x TIL that in a 1998 survey, 54.4 percent of Icelanders said they believed in the existence of elves