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TIL that Granny from the Looney Tunes has had the same voice actress since 1953

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N7xkE TIL The USAF and later Atomic Energy Commission tried to develop a nuclear propulsion system for aircrafts between 1946 and 1961 at a total cost of about $1 billion. Two of assemblies, consisting of a reactor and two modified turbojets each, is on display at Idaho National Laboratory.
oRwjY TIL that the 1985 movie "Clue", based on the popular board game, was filmed with three different possible endings. Different cinemas received different reels, so all three endings were showing simultaneously at different venues.
xVeO1 TIL When the D-Day forces landed, Hitler was asleep. None of his generals dared send re-inforcements without his permission, and no-one dared wake him.
08J1 TIL that Colonel Saunders disliked what the KFC franchise had done to the food so much that he described it as “the worst fried chicken I’ve ever seen” and called the gravy “wallpaper paste”
O5ye TIL The militarized border between North and South Korea, with practically no human inhabitants, has become a refuge for multiple endangered species