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TIL 1934's "It Happened One Night" inspired characteristics of Bugs Bunny. There is a scene in which Clark Gable's character is continuously called "Doc," a scene in which he eats carrots while talking quickly with his mouth full, and an imaginary character named "Bugs Dooley" is mentioned.

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VBVp TIL one Englishman took three wives (two of whom were cousins) and populated a polynesian island. Everyone living there today is descended from him.
1a7mW TIL of George Dantzig, who was late to class and solved two famously unsolved statistics problems because he thought they were homework.
yryJ TIL for the Star Wars: Episode V, Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the Directors Guild rather than obey its demand that he begin with conventional opening credits.
rRvXM TIL in 2005, when Steve Jobs began planning the iPhone, he had a choice to either shrink the Mac or enlarge the iPod. Jobs pitted the Macintosh and iPod teams against each other in an internal competition.
KOeO9 TIL that, since 1945, the only artists who could have - at one point - claimed to have the biggest selling album of all time were Vaughn Meader (The First Family), Carole King (Tapestry) and the BeeGees (Saturday Night Fever), before Michael Jackson released Thriller in 1984.