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TIL Yogi Bear as well as many other Hanna-Barbera cartoons, were given white collars so the Animators would have to draw less. Redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke.

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jBnE TIL that in the song “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay,” Otis Redding simply whistled the last verse in the recording because he hadn’t thought of any lyrics yet. Three days after recording, he died in a plane crash, and both the song and the whistling became iconic.
JR91 TIL that Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs sacrificed money and stayed in college for four years instead of going directly to the NBA because in her last days, his dying mother made him promise to graduate college with a degree.
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Y70r7 TIL Dave Coulier knew Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" was about him when he heard the line "I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner" as she once called him after the break up and asked if she could call back because he was in the middle of dinner. When he heard it, he went "uh oh."