Post * DQ8oj — Curious Curator

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TIL In 1961, after voice actor Mel Blanc was in a severe car accident, he was in a coma and wouldn’t speak. Doctors eventually tried asking about his characters. When asked how Bugs Bunny was, he said, “Eh, just fine Doc.” Asked about Tweety, he replied, “I tawt I taw a puddy tat.”

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rNXD4 TIL that the WWII submarine USS Tang sank two Japanese freighters in 1944 and was then sunk by one of her own torpedoes. Of the 78-man crew, nine survived and were rescued by the same Japanese frigate that had rescued sailors from the freighters the Tang had sunk the night before.

5l7n TIL the killing of cats during the Middle Ages increased the population of rats, helping to spread bubonic plague

yQk8J TIL that there exists Free Beer, a beer whose recipe you can freely modify since the beer is open source. Currently, the beer is at version 6.0.

4Xabb TIL Canadian Inuk writer Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk never had formal education before she was twenty. In the 1950s, she started writing a novel in Inuktitut syllabics when a missionary asked her to write some sentences in Inuktitut so he could learn the language

mxDoY TIL that all 11 films adapting Lemmy Caution, an American character written by a British writer in a series of English novels, are in Dutch or French.