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TIL Elmer Fudd originally wanted to shoot Bugs Bunny with a camera. He was just trying to take wildlife photos when Bugs drove him insane, nearly drowning him…

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wokKM TIL Hippos and cetaceans (orca, dolphins, whales, etc.) evolved from a common ancestor and are each others closest known relatives.
woDwJ TIL that Texas is the only state to have licensed dealers legally allowed to sell the Schedule 1 substance, Peyote. However they are only allowed to sell to people with a Certificate of Indian Blood.
9YV4p TIL Great Britain sold much of their American investments, and borrowed currency from Wall Street and the American government for the war effort in World War 1 (WWI). In 1931, 4.4 billion USD was still owed. The last payment on that debt was made nearly a century after the war's end, in 2015.
rBOx TIL that Groupon is trying to take the name GNOME, a registered trademark, from the Open Source Linux Desktop environment of the same name that’s been around for almost two decades for a proprietary app.
D1BLJ TIL The Schwarzchild Radius for Earth is one inch: If you were to compress the Earths mass to the size of a Ping Pong ball, it will become a Black Hole.