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TIL On an episode of Press Your Luck, all 3 contestants answered Sylvester uses catchphrase “sufferin’ succotash!” Host corrected them that it’s actually Daffy Duck that uses the catch phrase. Mel Blanc, the voice of most looney tunes, called the show as the voices and corrected him.

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VMpZp TIL that a Marine called customer service when his M107 .50 caliber sniper rifle failed during a gunfight with the Taliban. After several minutes the weapon was back in service.
OoKPR TIL in 2008, Five European divers got swept away by strong currents in Indonesia and survived 12 hours adrift at sea. They ended up stranded on Rinca Island and fended off a Komodo dragon. After spending 2 days on the island they were eventually rescued by a search boat.
LQ6wV TIL Keyboard instrument already exist since the third century BC. The earliest known keyboard instrument was the Ancient Greek hydraulis, a type of pipe organ invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria.
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