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TIL "Donnie" from The Wild Thornberries was voiced by Flea, the bassist of The Red Hot Chili Peppers

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b9pr0 TIL that 3 Honolulu firefighters were killed and 6 others injured after being attacked by Japanese planes while fighting fires at Hickam Field during the Pearl Harbor bombing. For their peacetime heroism, all 9 men received Purple Hearts, making them the only firefighters to awarded as such to date.
jera TIL That at the start of the 20th century, Paris, France had a zoo full of confined humans from their colonies: Madagascar, Indochine, Sudan, Congo, Tunisia and Morocco. Over a million people visited the zoo.
x6Erw TIL When a total solar eclipse occurs in a cloudy region, clouds suppress light levels so much that you won’t notice any changes in light levels until about 30 seconds before Totality. Like a fast forward sunset, it becomes dark. Light then returns to normal after Totality in only a few seconds
DAVr TIL Laphroaig scotch whisky was legal in the US during prohibition because the authorities thought it was so foul tasting no one would ever want to get drunk off it
grVd8 TIL early test audiences saw a version in which E.T. died on American soil & those people hated it so vehemently that the studio insisted E.T. live, so the final cut shows E.T. leaving for home. Audiences cried "happy tears" & made the film the 4th highest-grossing ever when adjusted for inflation.