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TIL all 66 characters with speaking roles in the 1984 cartoon series ThunderCats were voiced by only eight actors, with each actor voicing an average of 8.25 characters.

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6Z4W TIL that at age 16 Ted Kaczysnki was a student at Harvard, where he underwent devastating psychological torture as part of the CIA’s MKUltra “mind control” program. Today, we know Kaczynski as The Unabomber.
Br9pK TIL Americans purchase approximately $6.5 billion in greeting cards each year. Birthday cards, followed by sympathy cards, are the most popular.
bEba TIL that there is 4G mobile coverage on the summit of Mount Everest
rM6d TIL in 2015 a bus driver in India took a nap on his bus, only to be awoken to a monkey that had climbed into the driver’s cabin & had started the engine. As the driver ran to the cabin, the monkey panicked, shifted gears & jumped out. The bus rammed 2 other buses before the driver regained control.
9Yn7r TIL about Luna 15, the failed soviet lunar probe that launched three days before Apollo 11, while Neil Armstrong was taking the first steps on the moon, the soviets were trying to regain control of the probe were ultimately they failed causing luna 15 to promptly crash into a mountain