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TIL Mel Blanc (original voice of Bugs Bunny) was in a nearly fatal car accident and continued to record voices for all his characters from his hospital bed in a full body cast.

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R5rW9 TIL The Federal Reserve removes and shreds 5000+ tons of paper currency each year.
78PmP TIL that according to former employees, the painter Thomas Kinkade, known for his enormously popular prints and hundreds of licensed galleries, once urinated on a statue of Winnie the Pooh at Disneyland, and repeatedly shouted "codpiece" at a Las Vegas magic show until his mother calmed him down.
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