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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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6vj7 TIL Hamburg, Germany has plans to divert most cars away from its main thoroughfares and connect pedestrian and cycle lanes in what is expected to become a large green network. The plan plan envisions “eliminating the need for automobiles” within two decades.
WkbpB TIL that 47% of wild boars in the Czech Republic are radioactive.
DXKD TIL of the Codariocalyx motorius, a plant that starts moving, or “dancing” when exposed to sound. We don’t know how it works, or why this plant would develop such an ability.
Yp8mx TIL of Jaycee Dugard, an 11-year old girl who was kidnapped in 1991 only to be found when her kidnapper walked into a school in 2009 with two young girls claiming they were his daughters. They were in fact his daughters, their mother being Jaycee; a prisoner for 18 years and a mother at 14.
WrXo TIL of the Vermont Republic, a country in present-day Vermont that was sovereign for 14 years from 1777 to 1791, longer than the Republic of Texas. As a country, adult slavery was abolished within its boundaries.