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TIL that early on Human Genome Project was opposed by 80% of biologists

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LJM9 TIL that The Samurai was a Japanese series that was dubbed and aired in Australia, the first Japanese program to ever screen in the country. It became so popular that when lead actor Ose Koichi visited Melbourne, he was greeted by a crowd larger than that which had greeted The Beatles in 1964.
4X56N TIL In 1951, Mel Blanc (the voice of most Looney Tunes) accomplished what was then considered to be impossible, when he voiced both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, doing impersonations of each other. According to voice actors, the impressions should have muddled, or the voices straddled one another.
kADe TIL A Croatian woman died in her apartment of natural causes. No one reported her missing and she was only discovered after burglars broke into her flat – 35 years later – and found her mummified body.
OGy0X TIL that the huns were fans of gold. TIAL (Today I also learned) that the vandals were originally a German tribe who were fans of art. TIAL that the goths were split into two; the Ostrogoths had a cathedral in Ravenna; Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo.
W70r9 TIL the first film about the Titanic starred an actor who survived the sinking. Dorothy Gibson was playing bridge when the ship hit the iceberg and she escaped on the first lifeboat. She later starred in "Saved from the Titanic", in which she wore the same clothes that she wore on the Titanic.