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TIL Bugs Bunny saved Mel Blanc's life after being in a coma from a car accident.

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GYlm5 TIL one of the original members of Fleetwood Mac went out to the store while on tour in California in 1971. He never returned and, after the band, record producers, and the police searched for him for several days, it was discovered that he had joined a cult called The Children of God.
XQv8 TIL John H. Kellog, the father of Kellogs, devoted his life to preventing masturbation. He used acid to remove the clitoris and hoped that feeding children plain cereal every morning would help to combat the urges of “self-abuse”
WkDYX TIL about NUFORC, the National UFO Reporting Center, which receives now hundreds of reported sightings each month. Here’s an interesting one I found from 1955:
Lk0WP TIL that the street in front of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest was named in honor of Liviu Librescu, Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, he is renown for his heroism during the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting.
Lk7Qv TIL that Isaac Asimov's son David had one of the largest collections of child pornography ever uncovered on US soil