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TIL Wile E Coyote catches Roadrunner only once on the 31st anniversary episode of the series. He then hold up a sign that says “Okay wise guys, you always wanted me to catch him. Now what do I do?”

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4YKa TIL that when the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada caught fire. The Soviets tried to take out the fire themselves and not call the fire department. When the fire department arrived the Soviets would not let them in. Eventually, they let them in only after the Soviets removed sensitive documents.
WkgkA TIL Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German general who told Hitler to go fuck himself
W7v84 TIL about the "Society for Lying In" hospital in NYC, built in 1902, it's name based on archaic term for childbirth. It's estimated that 60% of the births in Manhattan took place there.
bv1j TIL Christian Bale’s publicist got PTSD just from being around him and wrote a book about how much of a dick he is.
XeJ8 TIL: That one of Bill Nye the Science Guy’s professors at Cornell was Carl Sagan.