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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The Telegraph
Owner surprised to find cat regularly catches bus
A pet cat named Dodger is living up to his name - by catching free bus trips from his home town.
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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Listerious
61 Epic Facts About The Shawshank Redemption - Listerious
It's arguably one of the best movies ever made, and in this post, You'll discover the ultimate list of facts about The Shawshank Redemption.
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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CNBC
Program that pays workers $10,000 to move to Vermont and work remotely is now accepting applications
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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TIL Robert Downey Jr. provided his DVD commentary in Tropic...
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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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Atlas Obscura
The Telharmonium Was the Spotify of 1906
It's a tumultuous time for streaming music services. One of the year's biggest albums, Adele's 25, was released on November 20, but not made available on...
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.
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В Москве всегда солнечно - Сын и отец
С 12 мая в 20:30 на ТНТ!
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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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Smithsonian
The Glow-In-The-Dark Kitty
A fluorescent green cat could help in the fight against AIDS
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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TIL that reindeer regularly seek out psychedelic mushrooms. Tribes...
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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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Business Insider
There's An Incredibly Secretive Starbucks At The CIA's Headquarters
No names on the drinks.
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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NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr..
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.
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A Store Once Sold Baked Beans for Minus Two Pence (My Dad Changed the World of Beans)
Brace yourself... for the BEAN WARS!
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Frasier's Dog got way more Fan Mail than he did
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Frasier's Dog got way more Fan Mail than he did
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TIL about the Chinese poem "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den," or "Shī shì shí shī shǐ." The poem is solely composed of "shi" 92 times, but pronounced with different tones.
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Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (Chinese: 施氏食獅史; pinyin: Shī-shì shí shī shǐ) is a short narrative poem written in Classical Chinese that is composed of 92 characters in which every word is pronounced shi ([ʂɻ̩]) when read in present-day Standard Mandarin…
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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Wikipedia
John Monash
Australian general
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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IndieWire
Bill Murray Explains Why He Created a Secret 1-800 Number to Be Reached About Roles
The actor explains how he came up with the idea for a phone number to assess his roles, and why it set him free.
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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MATES SHARE 50-YEAR BOND | Daily Mercury
DEEP in a banana plantation at Tullera, near Lismore, sits an unlikely pair of mates, each covered in sweat and red soil, tending to their growing share-crop of Hawaiian sweet potatoes, taro and cassava – crops destined for Brisbane’s Pacific…
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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NME
The Incredible Way Michael Jackson Wrote Music
If you’ve ever heard the below early demo of ‘Beat It’, you’ll know Michael Jackson’s extraordinary process of writing songs – by building each element of a track with his voice. Every note of every chord, harmony, melody, bass and even the rhythm through…
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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Nytimes
With Video, a Traveler Fights Back
A singer, whose career was boosted by his music video on YouTube about baggage handlers at United breaking his guitar, had his luggage temporarily lost by the airline on a trip to speak to executives about customer service.
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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TIL Mozart sold the most CDs in 2016, beating out Adele, Drake,...
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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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Cowboy boot
boot with Cuban heel, rounded to pointed toe, high shaft, no lacing
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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The Globe and Mail
Lost 250-year-old violin turns up in N.Y. alley
An 18th-century Italian-made violin reported missing earlier this week was found in an alley near the Manhattan bar where its owner had left it, police said.
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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Willys MB
car model