Post * OGbnR — Curious Curator

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TIL Mel Blanc, who voiced most of the Looney Tunes characters, was in a coma after a car accident in 1961. Calling his name did nothing to wake him up. After 14 days in the coma, a doctor asked Mel “Bugs, can you hear me?” He woke up from the coma, and responded as Bugs Bunny, “Yeah, what’s up doc?”

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lyZA TIL theres a high school in Louisiana whose mascot has been Snoopy the dog since 1966, and remains the only school in the nation to have received this right from Chuck Schultz

698Yl TIL a young woman's head swelled from her usual measurement of 22 inches to 24.8 inches (and the shape of her face changed) after she used hair dye. This was because the hair dye had a chemical in it called PPD (paraphenylenediamine), which can cause serious allergic reactions in certain people.

j6Klv TIL James O’Barr, author of “The Crow”, approached The Cure’s Robert Smith to contribute an existing song for the upcoming film. Smith, a huge fan of the graphic novel, opted instead to write and record a new track, “Burn”, in 2 days.

xVLA5 TIL The tallest cliffs in the solar system are located on Miranda, a moon of Uranus. At 20km high, it would take a freefalling person 12 minutes to reach the bottom, by which time they would have accelerated to 200km/h.

7A1P TIL that a whistleblower named Gustl Mollath was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital for claiming that a major bank was engaging in money laundering. A report by the bank itself later leaked, proved that Mollath was right and allowed him to be released.