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TIL 47% of Americans do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings

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pnZp TIL Voice of Bugs Bunny, Mel Blanc, fell into a coma after a car accident and would only respond to people who addressed him as one of his many cartoon characters and did so in character. The first thing he said after 3 weeks was “What’s up doc?” to a doctor who said “How ya doin Bugs Bunny?”
OGJoe TIL in the 1980s and 1990s, there were annual Nickelodeon Super Toy Run events which gave lucky child winners 5 minutes to run rampant in a toy store (Toys R Us or Kay Bee Toys) and put toys in shopping carts. The child could keep all the toys he or she brought past the finish line in time.
XE1A8 TIL Beck Weathers was left for dead twice after falling into coma while climbing Everest. At some point, his body warmed up and he regained consciousness. Blind, numb and severly frostbitten, he stumbled 300yd into Camp IV. He was saved in the 2nd highest altitude helicopter rescue in history.
9wBd7 TIL that people living near river valleys, especially the Mississippi River Valley, are often infected by a soil fungus known as Histoplasma capsalatum. Most infections are 'subclinical' and go unnoticed. Researchers found that 90% of the population of Kansas City had been infected at one time.
V0o8 TIL Monopoly game was originally intended to be a teaching tool about the injustices of Capitalism