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TIL Yogi Bear was one of several Hanna-Barbera characters to have a collar. This allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke—a method that reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000.

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xdo7 TIL In 2012, Jose Alvarenga, a Salvadorian fisherman, survived 438 days on a raft in the Pacific Ocean. With no motor or GPS or food, he survived on raw turtle and fish, rainwater, turtle blood, and his own urine. He is believed to be the longest surviving castaway.
5Y568 TIL the Ku Klux Klan has held demonstrations at Dolly Parton’s theme park because of her annual Gay Day
00D5 TIL that English magazine, Homes and Gardens, featured an article about Hitler’s house called ‘Hitler’s Mountain Home’. In it, the author gushed about the furniture, colour scheme and flowers. The following year, Hitler invaded Poland, which started WWII.
Dj7J TIL Star Wars Emperor Palpatine was based on a U.S. President. When asked if had been a jedi, George Lucas responded, “No, he was a politician. Richard M. Nixon was his name. He subverted the senate and finally took over and became an imperial guy and he was really evil.
VEY0 TIL that Alan Moore (author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta) wrote a pornographic graphic novel named Lost Girls. The three main characters were Alice from “Alice in Wonderland”, Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz” and Wendy from “Peter Pan”.