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TIL that Space Smells like Seared Steak.

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X9RE TIL when Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was trapped in a coma, he was unresponsive until a doctor tried asking, “Can you hear me, Bugs?” Blanc responded weakly, “Myeeeeh. What’s up doc?”
QGlX TIL that it is a myth that Albert Einstein failed maths as a student: “Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus”
X04eE TIL that during Dean Smith's tenure as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, 96.6% of his players received their degrees and he also helped pioneer desegregation by recruiting their first black scholarship player, Charlie Scott.
KYw54 TIL that Duff McKagan (Guns and Roses), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Jim Matheos (Fates Warning), Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue), Ryan Lewis (Lewis and Macklemore), Sir Mix A Lot, two Nobel Prize Winners, and Bill Gates' mother all went to Roosevelt High School, a public school in Seattle.
6NV8 TIL that when you receive a kidney transplant, it’s placed in a lower abdomen and the failed kidneys are usually not removed, leaving you with three kidneys.