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TIL West Caribbean Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashed in Machiques, Venezuela after entering a Deep stall, a occurrence in some aircraft that causes them to enter a near-unrecoverable stall, killing all 160 on board.

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OGbnR TIL Mel Blanc, who voiced most of the Looney Tunes characters, was in a coma after a car accident in 1961. Calling his name did nothing to wake him up. After 14 days in the coma, a doctor asked Mel “Bugs, can you hear me?” He woke up from the coma, and responded as Bugs Bunny, “Yeah, what’s up doc?”
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