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TIL of Dodger, a ginger cat who was discovered by his owner to have been riding the public buses near his home in England, at least once taking a 10 mile round trip. The drivers give him food, he sits on passengers' laps, and drivers know which stop to let him off at.
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Submitted March 05, 2020 at 11:50PM by Miskatonica
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TIL That the director of The Shawshank Redemption bought the script from Stephen King for just $5,000 and could have sold it for $3 million after working on it for just 8 weeks to turn it into a movie script. Even though he was a first-time director, he refused and directed the movie himself.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 01:16AM by JenaLoris
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TIL That the US state of Vermont is paying people $10,000 to have people move there and work remotely for an out of state employer
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Submitted March 05, 2020 at 09:42PM by Hououjin21
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TIL Robert Downey Jr. provided his DVD commentary in Tropic Thunder as Lincoln Osiris, a nod to a joke in the film that Lazarus never breaks character until he completes the DVD commentary
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 02:59AM by Shwnwllms
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TIL The first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones and connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 04:16AM by OhShitSonSon
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TIL there is a Russian version of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia called "В Москве всегда солнечно" - "It's Always Sunny in Moscow". The gang runs a bar named Philadelphia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8FDP_WJSk

Submitted March 06, 2020 at 05:29AM by MF_Bfg
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TIL about glow-in-the-dark kitties. Scientists insert the GFP(green fluorescent protein from jellyfish) gene along with another gene that blocks feline AIDS, into the cat's unfertilized eggs. When the eggs are fertilized, glowing cats are produced, which means that they also have the anti-AIDS gene.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 02:07AM by girlamethyst
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TIL that reindeer regularly seek out psychedelic mushrooms. Tribes would also get high off the red-and-white 'shrooms, and some postulate that that is where the Santa myth came from.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 04:47AM by sweetpatoot
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TIL The Starbucks at the CIA headquarters protects the identities of its CIA patrons by never writing any names on the drinks, putting workers through intense background check processes, and not using reward cards in fear of the data of the card befalling into the wrong hands.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 06:01AM by InterestingFacts7
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TIL At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
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Submitted March 05, 2020 at 11:20PM by soldierblue218
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TIL that in 1996, as a loss-leading tactic, British supermarkets competed so heavily on the price of baked beans that one store decided to sell them for MINUS 2p. This period is referred to by economists as The Bean Wars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGI4RAKdNLs

Submitted March 06, 2020 at 12:57PM by PadstheFish
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TIL of John Monash, an Australian WWI general who was so good at organising battles and overseeing the wellbeing of his troops, that during the Battle of Hamel in 1918, he managed to arrange the delivery of hot meals to troops, even up to the front line.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 02:53PM by Russian_Bagel
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TIL that Bill Murray has no agent or manager. To be reached for a role, filmmakers must call a 1-800 number in hopes that Bill will call them back.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 03:45PM by rambunctiousrhino
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TIL in 1965 six boys from Tonga skipped school and 'borrowed' a boat. After a storm and 8 days adrift, they survived alone on a small rocky island for 15 months. They stayed friends and worked together to survive and stay fit. After their rescue they were jailed (shortly) for stealing the boat.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 04:23PM by anders_andersen
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TIL Michael Jackson composed songs despite not playing any instruments. He would build each element of a track with his voice, so pitch perfect that studio musicians could match chords to his singing.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 05:03PM by OhShitSonSon
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TIL in 2009 an upset musician who had his $1200 Martin Guitar badly damaged by United Airlines and refused compensation, decided to write a song about it. In 10 days it gained 4 millions views and managed to knock 180 Million off United's Shares. The song was called "United Breaks Guitars".
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 06:37PM by Human02211979
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TIL Mozart sold the most CDs in 2016, beating out Adele, Drake, and Beyoncé, even though all of those artists had Grammy-winning hits that year.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 05:58PM by OhShitSonSon
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TIL Cowboy boots are designed for safety. The high heel prevents your foot from sliding thru the stirrups, trapping your foot but if it does and you fall off the horse the lack of laces allows your foot to slide out of the boot preventing you from being dragged by the horse.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 08:10PM by deanoplex
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TIL about a 250 year old violin valued at $100k that was left at a bar by accident. The bar used it for a fiddle contest and the winner got to keep the violin. That winner pawned it for $600. The violin was then miraculously found abandoned in an alley and returned to its rightful owner.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 08:04PM by iujohn3
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TIL that Dwight Eisenhower once wrote that the five most important vehicles used to win WWII were the jeep, the bulldozer, the 2.5 ton truck, the DUKW amphibious car, and the C-47 transport plane, none of which are designed for combat.
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Submitted March 06, 2020 at 05:34PM by Ganesha811
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