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TIL Jack Black's parents were both Rocket Scientists and worked on the Hubble Space Telescope

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Ov0a TIL Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.
RLl TIL that Mel Blanc, voice actor of most of the Looney Tunes characters (especially Bugs Bunny), has his tombstone inscription as “That’s all Folks!
VZZZ TIL that the reason Top 40 has specifically forty singles is because standard jukebox machines held 40 songs at that time.
KYBM4 TIL that the emperor Caligula exploited his descent from both Augustus and Mark Antony as a pretext to punish a senator for commemorating the victory of the former over the latter at the Battle of Actium
GARxN TIL in 1945 the captain of a US Destroyer refused an order to scuttle the damaged ship as there were children on board. He returned the ship safely to port and was awarded the Silver Star