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TIL in 2015, the judge from the Supreme Court of the United States included the quote "A great power must be accompanied by — a great responsibility!" in their opinion in the ruling of the Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC case

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Jvam TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Character. “..Her mother was in tears, just crying. She said that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.”
Z80bR TIL that the Chowchilla kidnappers -who locked 26 children and their bus driver in a buried moving van- never got to make their ransom demands, since the phone lines to the police were occupied by worried parents and the media calling in. The victims then dug themselves out and escaped.
gjVL TIL in 2012, over 1 million residents in the Zimbabwe city of Bulawayo were asked to flush their toilets exactly at 7:30 PM on a Saturday to unblock and clear out the sewer system of the city.
oR7EK TIL the median wage for all NFL players is roughly $860,000, which it has to be said is far below the $2 million mark that is commonly referenced. A rising first-year rookie has a minimum pay of $435,000. The most publicly exposed are the stunningly high earnings of top quarterbacks, like Tom Brady.
7KdM TIL that the world’s largest honey bee, the Himalayan Cliff Bee, produces hallucinogenic honey.