R5Y8a TIL Danny DeVito directed a horror film starring William Fichtner and the late Lance Reddick entitled "St. Sebastian". Completed in 2012, it has never been released and is currently DeVito's last feature film directing credit.
W7aVL TIL All of the 276 audience members Oprah gifted a free Pontiac to had to pay $6-7K fee once the cameras stopped rolling
9w1xp TIL that before the invention of ice cream cones, ice cream in Victorian England was served in reusable glass containers called “penny licks,” which were often not washed between customers and were notorious for spreading diseases.
nWPvW TIL that several sources state that BIGOT was a codeword for Operation Overlord, the Western Allies' plan to invade German-occupied western Europe during World War II, and that the term was an acronym for "British Invasion of German Occupied Territory"
4kZNX TIL China shut down their last steam locomotive freight lines in 2022, leaving North Korea and Bosnia the only countries with Steam Trains in non-heritage service
x6ZP1 TIL that actor Tim Curry based his accent for Frank N. Furter on Queen Elizabeth II
5Vagk TIL That the Lisbon Maru was a Japanese Cargo Liner sunk on 1st Oct 1942 while carrying over 1800 British POWs. The hatches were ordered battened down by the Captain preventing escape. Local Chinese fishermen came to the rescue and saved 384 men.
M78NW TIL One Disneyland Fan Has Ridden the Cars Land Radiator Springs Racers Ride Over 15,000 Times Since the Ride Opened in 2012
j6OJv TIL about Anton Fier, an American experimental rock drummer, who died by euthanasia in 2022 aged 66, not due to a terminal illness, but due to feeling he had accomplished everything he could in his life
0dYpj TIL that in January 2000, in the town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, half a human brain was found in a sewer and a DNA match was never identified
grRZ4 TIL a 2002 Winter Olympics athlete from Canada, named Ryan Wedding, became an international drug trafficker, ultimately becoming a high ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico and has been added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
LQPNZ TIL that Doc Severinsen, the bandleader on The Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was the host, is still alive and well at age 98.