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TIL the US government runs a bounty/informant website called “Rewards for Justice”

Read more rewardsforjustice.net

via reddit.com

LQEbr TIL that Leo Fender, the founder of Fender Guitars, did not know how to play a guitar at all.
l7lOa TIL that the Pan Am plane in the Tenerife disaster was also the first Boeing 747 to fly commercially, as well as being the first 747 to be hijacked. It was named 'Clipper Victor.'
QJMlp TIL of the “Coffin Torpedo”—a small shotgun secured inside the lid of a coffin to “prevent the unauthorized resurrection of the dead.” The shotgun fired lead balls at whoever pried the lid open and were used as an experimental deterrent to the rising tide of body snatchers in the late 1800s.
x6B50 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
vPOx8 TIL The natural history museum in Dublin, Ireland is known as ‘The Dead Zoo’