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TIL Chuck Jones (Creator of Bugs Bunny) Determined That Bugs Would be Crazy, but Only if His Craziness Served a Purpose. While Daffy Duck’s Craziness (Among Other Characters) Could be Unhinged and Purposeless.

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p8r5O TIL John O'Brien, who wrote the novel "Leaving Las Vegas," only wrote one other produced piece while he was alive, a 1992 episode of Rugrats.
1N6W TIL a few weeks after the Korean War ended, a North Korean pilot defected with a MiG-15 to South Korea and was paid $100k as a reward for being the first pilot to defect with an operational aircraft
LkG1d TIL that researchers figured out a way to break into locks by using a smart phone to record the sound of a key being inserted. They were able to narrow down the range from more than 330,000 keys to 3.
rRoKy Today I Learned Multiple of different variants of Chess around the Globe. Shogi is the Japanese version with an official player league/organization. Fun Fact Shogi allows for eliminated pieces to be re-positioned on the board allowing for an entire different end-game strategy.
Yp8BZ TIL on November 10, 1903. Mary Anderson invented an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from within the car, called the "Windshield Wiper".