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TIL that power couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones share a birthday - September 25

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ND6Q TIL that in 1987, Myanmar lowered its official literacy rate from 79% to 19% in order to qualify for least developed country status to receive UN debt relief.
ZkY TIL that in 2011, someone tried to sell a near-perfect fake of the Pontiac ambulance which had transported the body of President John F. Kennedy to his autopsy. Turns out the real one had been crushed in 1986 at the request of the Kennedy family.
0dbwy TIL about Nicholas Longworth, who when another member of Congress touched his bald head and said, "Nice and smooth. Feels just like my wife's bottom." Longworth felt his own head and said: "Yes, so it does."
GY5Mg TIL Galvani's nephew, Giovanni Aldini, electrically stimulated the limbs of a dead man in public
9wWvM TIL Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and a myriad of other recognizable characters, fell into a coma for two weeks after a car accident. After many unsuccessful attempts at waking him, one doctor finally said, “Bugs, can you hear me?”, to which Mel responded, "Yeah, what's up doc?" in character.