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TIL Kobe Bryant studied sharks and even dove with them. Now a great white is named after him

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W7O1B TIL that Mel Blanc's gravestone reads "That's All Folks!"—the phrase made famous by the character Blanc voiced, Porky Pig, at the end of Looney Tunes cartoons. Blanc, known as "The Man of 1,000 Voices," voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, and numerous other characters.
vnLj TIL The wife of Communist Romania’s leader (Elena Ceaușescu) was barely literate but was able to obtain a PhD in Chemistry from plagiarism.
R7OX1 TIL that the idea the humans had different races was challenged by the UNESCO statement on "The Race Question" on 18 July 1950.
nDGd TIL: Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion protecting video games as free speech protected by the First Amendment
7r5YL TIL that the most successful hunter in the animal kingdom is the dragon fly which catches 95% of the prey it pursues (compared to owls, hawks, and falcons 25% success rate). This is due to an impressive suite of evolved adaptations that have remained largely unchanged since the Permian age.