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TIL that Steve Irwin was a voice actor in Happy Feet. He voiced the elephant seal named Trev.

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rNeLx TIL on 4/20/1989, 37-yr old Patricia Bernadette Meehan of Pittsburgh, PA disappeared after a high speed car accident outside the town of Circle, MT. Unusually, over 5000 alleged sightings of Meehan have since been recorded. The case remains open.
M747m TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.
Egd0w TIL The smallest waist ever recorded was 33 cm (12.99″) set by Ethel Granger of England in the early 1920’s.
n0ob TIL Muhammad Ali has a star on Hollywood Boulevard, but his star is the only one to be mounted on a vertical surface, out of deference to his request that his prophets name not be walked upon.
R55o4 TIL that if you think some vegetables taste disgusting, you are most likely one of the 30% of all humans who have twice as many taste buds as other people, a "Super-Taster", who can taste glucosinolate, which is a very bitter chemical in plants and exists in large amounts in things like salad stems.