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TIL that 90% of all data ever created by human existence was generated in the last 2 years.

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ymNM TIL that Carl Stalling, the composer behind Bugs Bunny, spent 22 years working every day with a 50-piece orchestra at Warner Bros. Studios. He ultimately scored in excess of 600 cartoons at the rate of one score per week between 1936 and 1958.
5VmV9 TIL that comedian Keegan-Michael Key and DC Comics writer Dwayne McDuffie were half-brothers.
oBE08 TIL elite chess players lose 10 to 12 pounds, on average, over the course of a 10-day tournament.
4kOOo TIL There was an episode of "All in the Family" where a man attacks Edith on her 50th birthday to which she defends herself with a burnt cake prompting the loudest cheers and applause from the studio audience in the history of the entire series.
Lra0 TIL JD Salinger never relinquished rights for audiobooks. The only legal way to obtain a Catcher in the Rye audiobook, is to have “permission” from a physician or ophthalmologist to listen to a “legal audiobook” recorded for the Library of Congress, who can do so by law, but only for the blind.