TIL The Bee Gee's wrote "Islands in the Stream" for Marvin Gaye, it was a hit for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton and then sampled for "Ghetto Superstar". When The Bee Gee's finally recorded their version, they used "Ghetto Superstar " for their final chorus.
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Islands in the Stream (song)
"Islands in the Stream" is a song written by the Bee Gees and sung by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. It was released in August 1983 as the first single from Rogers's album Eyes That See in the Dark. Named after the Ernest Hemingway…
TIL Taco Bell has failed twice to expand their operations to Mexico. In 1992, Mexican customers found their tacos too expensive, and in 2010 their expansion restaurant closed because customers were unfamiliar with the menu items.
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Why Taco Bell Flopped in Mexico
Taco Bell is one of America's greatest fast food success stories and can be found in more than 30 countries. You won't find it in Mexico, even though it was Mexico that inspired its food. It's not that Taco Bell hasn't tried, it's just that its efforts have…
TIL Landing humans on the Moon required the most sudden burst of technological creativity and the largest commitment of resources ever made by any nation in peacetime. At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities.
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Apollo program
American human spaceflight program
TIL after Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob Squarepants, graduated high school he worked as a fry cook during summers at a restaurant in Islesford, Maine known as Islesford Dock Restaurant. The restaurant would later be the inspiration for the Krusty Krab in the show.
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Cartoonist whose summers in Maine inspired ‘SpongeBob’ dies at 57
Stephen Hillenburg credited his time in Maine with helping to inspire the ideas and characters that later developed into "SpongeBob SquarePants."
Today I learned global company Unilever "makes and sells products under more than 1,000 brand names worldwide. Two billion people use them on any given day." Some of their brands include Dove, Klondike, Hellman's, Lipton, Magnum, Ben and Jerry's, Axe, Q-tips, St. Ives, Popsicle, and Vaseline.
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Brands
Unilever makes and sells products under more than 1,000 brand names worldwide
TIL that While filming Rocky IV Sylvester Stallone told Dolph Lundgren to really punch him to capture a realistic scene. One particularly forceful Lundgren punch to Stallone's chest slammed his heart against his breastbone, causing the heart to swell, and was forced into intensive care for 8 days.
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Rocky IV
1985 US boxing film directed by Sylvester Stallone
TIL of an attempted plane bombing in 1985 where the bomb went off an hour early, while still in the airport. The perpetrators did not realize that Japan does not observe daylight saving time, so the bomb went off before it made in onboard.
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1985 Narita International Airport bombing
airport bombing in 1985
TIL James Earl Jones decided to go uncredited for his role of voicing Darth Vader because he considered David Prowse’s performance inside the Vader costume to be the more defining of the two performances.
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10 Actors Who Went Uncredited For Major Film Roles (And Why)
Major Hollywood filmmaking is a peculiar business.
TIL Jupiter's moon Europa is covered by a thick layer of ice, with a huge subsurface ocean of liquid water underneath it. Estimates give the ocean an average depth of 100km, and a radius of 877km. This equates to 3 times the combined volume of water of Earth's oceans.
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APOD: 2012 May 24 - All the Water on Europa
A different astronomy and space science
related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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TIL We produce a lot of saliva just before vomiting in order to protect our teeth from erosion due to the acidity of the vomit.
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BBC Science Focus Magazine
Why do we drool before being sick?
The sexiest combination in the world: salivation plus vomit.
TIl that the real life Top Gun flight school became so sick and tired of the constant movie references that they imposed a $5 fine to any staff member that quotes the movie
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Top Gun Had A Hilarious Impact On The Real-Life Flight School
Leave the Top Gun quotes at home.
TIL the screenwriter of Cast Away stranded himself on a deserted island to force himself to search for food and shelter in preparation for the film. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore, which inspired Tom Hank's inanimate character companion named Wilson.
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Cast Away
2000 American adventure drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis
TIL in 2009 a pigeon named Winston raced Telkom, South Africa's largest ISP, to see who could deliver 4GB of data to a location 60 miles away the fastest. By the time Winston arrivd with the 4GB flash drive, Telfom had transfered only 4% of the data
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BBC News - SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
Winston the pigeon carries a 4GB memory stick across South Africa faster than an IT firm's ADSL service can transfer the data.
TIL that in 2018 a 4-year-old Pennsylvania boy was summoned for jury duty. He explained he had preschool that day and so could not serve.
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A 4-year-old Pennsylvania Boy Was Summoned for Jury Duty
He has preschool that day
TIL 42-year-old Zamboni driver, kidney transplant recipient, and practice hockey goalie David Ayres, led the Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-3 win after their two pro goalies were injured. Cheered by the opposing team's fans, he was the oldest player ever to make his pro debut in a major sport.
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Tampa Bay Times
Carolina Hurricanes’ emergency backup goalie beats Toronto Maple Leafs
Dave Ayres is a 42-year-old Zamboni driver and kidney-transplant recipient. He gets his first NHL win after Carolina’s two goalies leave the game hurt.
TIL Bob Barker plans to give all his money to animal causes after his death
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Bob Barker giving away his own money to save the animals
Bob Barker will return Thursday to "The Price is Right" to celebrate his 90th birthday. Barker joins CBS News correspondent John Blackstone to discuss some o...
TIL professional basketball player Marvin Barnes, once refused to board a plane from Louisville to St. Louis. Because the flight was scheduled to arrive (Central Time) before its departure time (Eastern Time), Barnes famously said, "I ain't getting in no damn time machine." He rented a car instead
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Marvin Barnes
American basketball player
TIL that Michelangelo hid under the Medici Chapel in Florence for 3 months during a period of political turmoil, occupying his time by sketching on the walls with charcoal. His whereabouts were a secret for almost 500 years until the museum director stumbled upon the drawings in 1976.
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Atlas Obscura
Michelangelo's Hidden Drawings
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel.
TIL 29 of the 30 most watched broadcasts in the United States were Super Bowls, with the other one being the final episode of M*A*S*H
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List of most watched television broadcasts in the United States
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TIL that Australian comedian Hamish Blake won the heavyweight category in the 2011 New York State Body Building competition after entering as a joke, as he was the only competitor heavy enough to qualify for his weight category
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Hamish Blake, Unlikely Bodybuilding Champion (2011) | Hamish & Andy
With the help of some rather unconventional moves (and being the ONLY ONE to compete in the heavyweight division) Hamish became the 2011 New York State Bodybuilding Champion!
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TIL the show VeggieTales focused on retelling Old Testament Bible stories because the creator's mom did not want to see Jesus as a vegetable.
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Facts & Trends
25 Interesting Things You Never Knew About VeggieTales | Facts & Trends
With the 25-year anniversary of VeggieTales happening this month, here are 25 interesting things you may not have known about the show.