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TIL Mel Blanc, the voice actor of Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes Characters, also voiced Barney Rubble from the Flintstones

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N7Xb1 Eighty-five years so far. The pitch-drop experiment—really more of a demonstration—began in 1927 when Thomas Parnell, a physics professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, set out to show his students that tar pitch, a derivative of coal so brittle that it can be smashed to pieces with a hammer, is in fact a highly viscous fluid. It flows at room temperature, albeit extremely slowly.
nX6B TIL The Lincoln Hotel in Chicago has a rooftop bar named after John Frederick Parker. Parker was Lincoln’s bodyguard the night of his assassination, he left during intermission to the local tavern. He was known to be drunk on duty.
QGgd TIL One million seconds is a little over 11 days and one billion seconds is over 31 years.
69YOm TIL that when a double rainbow happens, the colors on the second rainbow are reversed.
4g9N TIL that the most weight ever lost by a woman was 900 lbs (408kg). At her peak weight of 1,199 lbs (544kg), she became depressed and attempted suicide with painkillers, but they were simply absorbed by her fat, putting her to sleep for a couple days.