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TIL Rapper Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar from Rugrats

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NxWJ TIL: The biggest cities, like NYC (212), Chicago(312), and Los Angeles (213), were assigned the shortest area codes so they could be dialed fastest on rotary phones; that’s why Anchorage (907) got the short end of the stick.
kJeeE TIL that in 1973, a jet plane ingested a Rüppell’s vulture while flying at its cruising altitude of 37,000 feet. This is the highest flight of a bird ever recorded.
E1YEo TIL during WWII, the US extracted accused Nazis from Latin America and put them in internment camps. But most were innocent, and some were actually Jews who had fled the Holocaust. They were all interned together, Jews trapped in American camps with Nazis who would harass and beat them.
jNN6Q TIL Tobasco sauce is made from mashed peppers that have been aged in oak barrels for at least three years. This process makes the flavor more mellow. [2:30]
OoBkY TIL James Harrison has donated blood every week for the last 60 years. His blood contains a rare antibody that prevents pregnant women from developing Rhesus Disease. With his donations, he has saved over 2 million lives.