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TIL that Terry McGovern (voice of Launchpad McQuack) is credited with naming the Wookiees from Star Wars

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awlv9 TIL that in 1967 legendary animator Bill Plympton met, and was influenced by, the work of cartoonist Homer Groening, father of 'Simpsons' creator Matt Groening, a whole 20 years before the first 'Simpsons' cartoons aired
pYaaA TIL Cormac McCarthy, One of America's greatest writers, wrote 10 books and an estimated 5 million words on a 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. It sold at auction in 2009 for $254,500. The next day McCarthy received the same model from a friend as a replacement that cost $20.
yEK8 TIL that “Hello Kitty” has no mouth. The mouthless phenomenon is “so that people who look at her can project their own feelings onto her face, because she has an expressionless face. Kitty looks happy when people are happy. She looks sad when they are sad.“
MdPV TIL cats decided to live with humans on their own and domesticated themselves
OaPL TIL that the Ku Klux Klan has officially denounced the Westboro Baptist Church for being “hatemongers”.